my medium abandoned me
So, here's the deal. I wrote a fabulously witty entry last night. My computer shut down on me and now won't load at all, so don't judge me, I'm trying to write something in a short amount of time.
Reading McLuhan was an eerie experience; it seemed as though it couldn't have been written prior to the 1990s. His ideas are so entirely relevant that they border on precognition. Since I know the text was published in 1967 but then reissued, I wanted to be sure that he hadn't added to it when it was republshed. I did a little research and located some interesting information on McLuhan (including a musical written about him). I also learned that he died in 1980, so he probably didn't add to it during the 90s.
Living in "a brand new world of allatonceness" and "a global village" are both terms that bring to mind the abilities provided by the internet that again it seemed impossible that it could have been written prior to the 90s. Further reading brought me to the conclusion that McLuhan was talking about the telephone and television. And this brings me to my next point: every time is convinced that it's time is the most technologically advanced and that technology is advancing at tremendously fast rates. We aren't to impressed by the tv and telephone; they almost seem obselete when you can watch tv on the internet now and have been able to communicate via the internet for some time. This makes me wonder how much of our view of technology is shaped by where we're standing. Our perspective is shaped by the events preceding us. Like the environment, this history is invisible to us.
If I missed something, there's egg somewhere (and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a trademark printed on it).