People who say "technology is just a tool" always make me silently go, "oh boy, you're soooo screwed." I've been more often right than not.
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@ApolonTorq@pmarca Curiously, McLuhan's big idea was transition from oral to visual-textual culture and back. You're living his ideas
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@vgr@pmarca@ApolonTorq it's also a tautology - all tools are "technology"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@vgr@pmarca@ApolonTorq the technology extends the scope of the sense while at three same time numbing it. Skin numbed by clothes#divorce -
@vgr@pmarca@ApolonTorq we shape our tools and thereafter... Is credited to Father John Culkin, on the LP it ends with "our tools 'ape us"
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@vgr@ApolonTorq@pmarca listen to The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan (Ful…: http://youtu.be/jVnjiASvCOU meditate on it#refract nowThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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