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01Where does speaking start to beat typing?There is no established academic literature using the specific term "friction threshold" for voice.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen10 Oct

02Does naming a feeling work the way McLuhan said language works?Based on this search pass: no published work explicitly bridges McLuhan's medium-of-media theory of language to either Lieberman's affect-labeling neuroscience or Barkley/Vygotsky inner-speech theory.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen10 Oct

03Can the tetrad forecast what AI turns into?The tetrad has been little applied to the major artifacts of the present: large language models, recommender systems, the smartphone-plus-app stack, cryptocurrency, the cloud, augmented reality.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen10 Oct

04Did the text-internet generation think differently from the video one?No study compares a typographic-internet cohort with a video-internet cohort.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen9 Oct

05Does talking to an AI change how you think?No peer-reviewed study tests how voice conversation with an AI affects memory, composition or thinking. The one widely cited study of AI and thinking was typed, and is an unreviewed preprint.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

06Does typing weaken speaking?No study shows that heavy typing degrades speech production, or that heavy speaking improves typed composition. Whether practice in one carries over to the other is untested.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

07Does dictation train speech?No peer-reviewed study shows that dictation or speech-to-text improves unaided spoken fluency or confidence. Speech-recognition feedback does improve pronunciation, which makes it a testable idea.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

08Do screens shift the balance of the senses?Nobody has measured whether what children watch or play changes which sense dominates when sight and sound compete — the closest measurable form of McLuhan's sense ratio.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct