Marshall McLuhan Interview 1967

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at 4:55 he nails reading on tablet devices such as the iPad, The Nook, and The Kindle.

[treefrog2108]

just discovered this guy,interesting outlook.Can anyone tell me the name of one of his books>?

[fifh89]

@treefrog2108 "Understanding Media"

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@treefrog2108

War and peace in the global village, the medium is the message

[pr1vat3only]

@treefrog2108 Yes of course: The Global Village is a must-read ;-)

[TheDLFILMS]

Canada: A cool place:)

[blueguitarist]

holy shit

[Jannacek]

he's coooolll

[SUSHISHIP01]

thank  you

[meyerjac]

I'm learning about this guy in my Ethnography class. He was prophetic.

[Fetalimperialism]

Why couldn't he have stayed alive long enough to tell us about the internet?!

[jackrowet1234]

@Fetalimperialism he did, in a way... he talks about being able to go up to a screen, enter a subject of your interest, and have information accessed on it instantly from university libraries, in 1965... he also talks about how when information is spread quickly enough, the unorganized masses become organized... look at egypt ect

[Contextcatcher]

Visionary point of view? 0:06 "LSD the lazy mans form of Finnegans Wake". See vid "Terence McKenna Surfing Finnegans Wake"...reading parts of it beautiful aloud and giving interesting comments. McLuhan influence was vital for this important promotor of psychedelica...

[Contextcatcher]

Point of view? LSD and Finnegans Wake: see vid "Terence McKenna Surfing Finnegans Wake"....reading it beautiful aloud and with interesting comments.

Mc Luhan visonair way of thinking of was important for him.

[shockeyk]

Brilliant, wow so far ahead of us all in understanding the implications of an electric life. His quote here is very prescient: "You can't have a point of view in the electric age. You can't have a static fixed position. It's impossible to have any point of view, and have it mean anything at all. You have to be in everything at once, whether you like it or not. You have to be participating in everything going on at the same time. 4:18" #transmedia #maxstrategy #direct2fan

[SynerJetics]

I want to see a conversation between Marshall McLuhan and R. Buckminster Fuller! Does such an occurrence exist?!

[SynerJetics]

" Death to Videodrome, long live the New Flesh!"

[EshkaronsEngine]

watching McLuhan swivel around with the computer lights in the background screams INTERNET prophetically to me. My brother read that McLuhan had an extra source of blood supplying his brain something like an extra artery when his autopsy was done. Maybe this explains how he could think so far ahead of the norm.

[SaulChel]

I'm an idiot without a point of view, posting this comment like robot :D

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[fastfoodclowns]

Sometimes he got carried away with his own ideas.... He liked to "put-on" his audience. I learned a lot from him, but he forgets about the fact that there is evil in the world regardless of what medium is most popular.

[thunderusa]

@fastfoodclowns.... Evil is not a cool medium when shown on TV, ..it is a hot

topic.....What Marshal said in the 70's still goes today.

Marshal Mcluhan was every bit aware of evil.

[DonClaude]

@thunderusa He also said that he couldn't be moralistic about media.

[HISTORYOFILLUSION]

@fastfoodclowns I think hes well aware of 'Evil' read more of his work.

[croscream]

This man is already where we will be 5 - 10 years from now.

[SteelFisher]

Front page challenge was an awesome show. Pretty sure this is from that show. Or possible This Hour...

[neotint]

"An idiot means a very private person. That's a Greek word meaning a very private person. I'm losing my idiot status steadily. I'm becoming less and less private, I'd much rather be an idiot."

[neotint]

"People like the Americans who've decided to try it out in the 20th Century have done such a bad job we don't feel any temptation to follow them."

[Haasenpad]

very, very interesting... what a wise man!

[removethatnow]

so on point, even back then

[NeoOneOrg]

hey man I can explain what he was saying as well or better and have been developing a language to explain what I call Egonomics, you want a copy, because it might be interesting to you

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