I attended Marshall McLuhan's lectures at Fordham in 1967-8. Thanks to The Free Press for joining those who have reinforced and repopularized him and his ideas over the decades. A favorite way of distilling his perspective on media was "we shape our tools, and our tools shape us."
McLuhan encouraged us to consider how each emerging medium…
I attended Marshall McLuhan's lectures at Fordham in 1967-8. Thanks to The Free Press for joining those who have reinforced and repopularized him and his ideas over the decades. A favorite way of distilling his perspective on media was "we shape our tools, and our tools shape us."
McLuhan encouraged us to consider how each emerging medium might change us. Many of the circumstances we humans sometimes blame on one another are most attributable to our technologies such as satellites, smartphones, AI, etc. It's challenging for us to perceive and identify all the effects because as they say, "we don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't a fish."
I attended Marshall McLuhan's lectures at Fordham in 1967-8. Thanks to The Free Press for joining those who have reinforced and repopularized him and his ideas over the decades. A favorite way of distilling his perspective on media was "we shape our tools, and our tools shape us."
McLuhan encouraged us to consider how each emerging medium might change us. Many of the circumstances we humans sometimes blame on one another are most attributable to our technologies such as satellites, smartphones, AI, etc. It's challenging for us to perceive and identify all the effects because as they say, "we don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't a fish."