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Explore Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking theories on communication, technology, and why "the medium is the message" in the digital age.
…and that the new media will turn us all into collective automata robots. This is a rather simple-minded idea. I mean, Truffaut and Bradbury together had cooked up something that's not very convincing. It's certainly true that the book has had an enormous…
…be put open, every page, on a single desktop by microfilm. The sort of things that are happening make that picture, that Truffaut picture, look rather obsolete. They still think of books as bound paper objects, but in the new microfilm age, microcard age…
…asked him whose favorite director was and all that. Well, he thinks Jules and Jim is just the greatest thing that ever happened, and Truffaut is the guy he looks to for a lot of guidance. And somebody said, well, what do you do when you go to the…
…you go to the movies? I mean, it must be awful. It must ruin films for you to sit there and sort of be looking for what Truffaut did when he made the film. He said, when I watch the movie, the only thing that I can do and the only thing I can…