Techno-seers: thumbnail summaries of the views of some brave thinkers who've dared to question the juggernaut of technology.
New Internationalist › Nbr. 1996, January 1996
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Techno-seers: thumbnail summaries of the views of some brave thinkers who've dared to question the juggernaut of technology.
Marshall
McLuhan A cutting-edge thinker with a talent for baffling aphorisms, McLuhan became a media celebrity and cult intellectual in the tumultuous 1960s. At his most optimistic McLuhan believed that modern information technologies would create a `global village', breaking down barriers of language and distance. He spoke of electronic technologies as extensions of human consciousness and preached `the me...See the full content of this document
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