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Explore Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking theories on communication, technology, and why "the medium is the message" in the digital age.
…a telephone, there are 1,000 people who invent the telephone. And then the law courts are filled with suits for generations. Darwin and Wallace discovered evolution at the same time without any personal acquaintance. But at the present time, one of the…
…worth it. Now, as we move our evolutionary process out into the environment itself, and instead of putting something inside, the Darwin thought of man as inside an environment, it never occurred to Darwin that it would be possible to program the environment…
…itself, and instead of putting something inside, the Darwin thought of man as inside an environment, it never occurred to Darwin that it would be possible to program the environment itself as evolutionarily. Darwin is a literate 19th century man. He…
…inside an environment, it never occurred to Darwin that it would be possible to program the environment itself as evolutionarily. Darwin is a literate 19th century man. He had no information of the electronic information circuit or total human environment of…
…human environment of information. So, Teilhard de Chardin is a little more aware of the meaning of the electronic than Darwin could possibly have been. But that's a perfect example of the rear-view mirror, this Darwinian obsession with man's thumbs, fingers,…
…fingers, and appendages as biological evolution. This had, right in the midst of the great evolutionary step into the electronic circuitry, Darwin remains obsessed with this content of this old environment. What we are, of course, saying here is that If man…
…worth it. Now, as we move our evolutionary process out into the environment itself, and instead of putting something inside the Darwin thought of man as inside an environment, it never occurred to Darwin that it would be possible to program the environment…
…itself, and instead of putting something inside the Darwin thought of man as inside an environment, it never occurred to Darwin that it would be possible to program the environment itself as evolutionary. Darwin is a literate 19th century man, and…
…inside an environment, it never occurred to Darwin that it would be possible to program the environment itself as evolutionary. Darwin is a literate 19th century man, and he had no information of the electronic information circuit or total human environment…
…human environment of information. So Teilhard de Chardin is a little more aware of the meaning of the electronic than Darwin could possibly have been. But that's a perfect example of the rearview mirror, this Darwinian obsession with man's thumbs, fingers,…
…fingers, and appendages as biological evolution. This had, right in the midst of the great evolutionary step into the electronic circuitry, Darwin remains obsessed with this content of this old environment. What we are, of course, saying here is that If man…
…in, I think it was 1865. Absolutely unnoticed. Totally ignored. He sent reprints of the article to the leading biologists of the time. Darwin and Huxley didn't have a clue as to what this meant. Darwin looked at turtles. His gardener said of him, oh, a…
…reprints of the article to the leading biologists of the time. Darwin and Huxley didn't have a clue as to what this meant. Darwin looked at turtles. His gardener said of him, oh, a nice man but strange, you know. He'll stand in the garden looking at…
…his colleagues turn against him. When Alfred Russell Wallace, whose contribution to the theory of natural selection was equal to that of Darwin, when he wrote a book on his notion of the descent of man, which incidentally is far closer to our current…
…the bumps on the bottom, as an indication of the personality of the person who owned that body, Thomas Huxley wrote to Darwin and said, we must stop him, we must kill him if necessary. And one of William James' scientifically oriented colleagues told him,…
…worth it. Now, as we move our evolutionary process out into the environment itself, and instead of putting something inside, the Darwin thought of man as inside an environment, it never occurred to Darwin that it would be possible to program the environment…
…itself, and instead of putting something inside, the Darwin thought of man as inside an environment, it never occurred to Darwin that it would be possible to program the environment itself as evolutionary. Darwin is a literate 19th century man. He…
…as inside an environment, it never occurred to Darwin that it would be possible to program the environment itself as evolutionary. Darwin is a literate 19th century man. He had no intimation of the electronic information circuit or total human environment of…
…human environment of information. So Teilhard de Chardin is a little more aware of the meaning of the electronic than Darwin could possibly have been. But that's a perfect example of the rearview mirror, this Darwinian obsession with man's thumbs, fingers,…
…fingers, and appendages as biological evolution. This had, right in the midst of the great evolutionary step into the electronic circuitry, Darwin remains obsessed with this content of this old environment. What we are, of course, saying here is that If man…