Incidentally, McLuhan was a genius, and saw much of what we're experiencing now coming decades ago. I know...we all claim to understand him and cite clichés like 'the medium is the message' (usually without understanding), but he's worth reading. FB makes much more sense after.
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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