McLuhan's Wake

We all live in Marshall McLuhan's wake. McLuhan's Wake explores the enduring hold of Marshall McLuhan's message. An original feature-length documentary with exclusive supplemental interiews and features.

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[happyslug]

OH MY GOD HE DESCRIBED THE INTERNET

[Tim Barton]

The Internet is the perfect place to find just how less literate we've become. While I personally like the convenience, it's hard not to admit that discourse has fallen by the wayside. We no longer face others so much in debate as we do hurl insults electronically.

Just a footnote, The Who's album Who's Next was originally to be called Lifehouse, about a future society characterised by a communication/information 'web'; Marshall beat Pete and Co. only by a couple of years.

[mjfrattaroli]

I wish I could resurrect McLuhan and pick his brain on whats happening today.

Then again, "what is happening" is much more obvious to us now than it was in McLuhan's day. We are now so deep into the unfolding of this cosmic drama that all you've got to do is watch and you'll see it clear as day. This seems to me why McLuhan was a mysterious iconoclast in his day (though 'the people' still seemed to find his ideas irresistible), but today his ideas are far more obvious, or at least more paletable

[KrompChomp]

Happy 100th birthday Marshall McLuhan.

[knittastick]

Yup!!

[BuildBabylon]

@milkingtherod This man had the truth from so long ago! "All forms of violence are a quest for identity."

[BuildBabylon]

This man had the truth from so long ago! "All forms of violence are a quest for identity."

[MrAndiman22]

Dude was brilliant....I would say I get more then 10 % of what he was saying and more....awesome! Tks

[rabidapple]

I just watched the full-length feature, Wow McLuhan was a man outta time! What a great thinker

[HigherPlanes]

He was misunderstood because he was ahead of his time.

[simonorman]

no, no. while seemingly prophetic, McLuhan instead simply proposed a decanted view of the effects of media and suggested "technological determinsism." In other words, he visualized a hypothesis that catalyzed the creation of the Internet. Engineers were heavily (and optimistically) influenced by McLuhanism.

[Matt Miller]

Yes, also at time when Pete made a lot of loud, beautiful noise through Marshall speakers. ;D