The Technology Prophet: Mind-blowing Insight and Media Theories with Marshall McLuhan
The Logos Podcast
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The Effects of Media on the Population
When these factors remain ignored and invisible they have an absolute power over the user. What is desperately needed is a kind of understanding of the media which would permit us to program the whole environment so that say, literate values would not be wiped out by new media. This began with Freud and Einstein back in 1900. The last Thunder in Finnegan's Wake on V8424 is television. With all its effects, social consequences carefully dramatized.
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