The emergence of “new media” and “social media” — it has all looked fairly revolutionary, the beginning of something entirely new. But, when you step back and consider it, these innovations mark perhaps just an acceleration of a trend that began long ago — one that Marshall McLuhan, the famed communication theorist, first outlined in the 1960s. The vintage clip above gives you a feel for this, and McLuhan himself appears at around the 2:45 minute mark. As you watch this video, you start to realize how prescient McLuhan was, and how social media is almost the logical fulfillment of the trend he saw emerging.
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A stunning clip. Despite the theatrical prologue and the oddly childlike interlude on a library set where a TV personality pretends to open the door to the outside world and listen to its sounds, McLuhan and his interlocutor sit and discuss the social impact of the Internet and the Web without ever uttering those names. Of course, they couldn’t — by the looks of this black-and-white video they were conversing about 50 years ago. Remarkable!
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I enjoyed the theatrical introduction which frames the Marshall McLuhan interview.
he’s reading from cue cards. very very weird
His misses were as big as his mistakes, and in some ways more interesting. He believed that text would become obsolete in a “post-literate” world of recorded and transmitted images and sound. As it turns out, the global village is almost all text-based, and likely to remain so.
Meant, of course, “his misses were as big as his hits.” Oh for an edit button.