Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the... See more
Nicholas Carr • Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Concern with effect rather than meaning is a basic change of our electric time, for effect involves the total situation, and not a single level of information movement.
Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media
that is, of any extension of ourselves -result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."
What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message by Mark Federman
what Marshall McLuhan used to call “rear-view mirror” thinking: the assumption that a new medium is merely an extension or amplification of an older one;
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Point is, in the beginning, human beings didn’t have any technology. They had their senses, their brains, and the best ideas they could come up with on their own. But the instant that some creative human being came up with the idea of a hammer and realized it was far more effective at breaking up rocks than slamming your forehead into them, life... See more
Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
By continuously embracing technologies, we relate ourselves to them as servomechanisms.