About to expound in a column about McLuhan, and what he'd have to say about Facebook today, and I can't stop thinking about that scene in Annie Hall when Woody Allen pulls out McLuhan himself to correct some windbag, and I keep thinking someone will do that to me.
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pretty cool that we go from mcluhan to planetary destruction in just 5 tweets. global village, indeed!
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Global Yugoslavia more like, I suspect. I think that's one of things McLuhan got wrong (understandably so). He didn't see how the new mediasphere would be a bottom-up pandemonium, rather than a top-down, one-to-many broadcast.
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Related: I'm always fascinated with science-fiction from the 50s through the 80s that jumped into the future but always had newspapers; there never was an internet. The concept was so foreign to people imagining the future.
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Right. And it's not like the concept of a screen with the moving image was completely foreign. Scale down a TV to something flat, put text and image on there, and you've got the makings of a tablet. How could you have dead-tree printing in the future?? Seems obvious now...
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