The Technology Prophet: Mind-blowing Insight and Media Theories with Marshall McLuhan
The Logos Podcast
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The Future of Television and Radio
I was disappointed that Professor McLuhan's address didn't confront more serious technological issues. And I'd like to ask him if he'd agree that nuclear energy represents mass suicide, the ultimate expression of the death we shall see in this world. The main development in these electric media is the loss of private identity. So the nuclear world is a kind of rip-off as far as private identity and private values and goals are concerned. Just how that relates to the atom bomb and so on it would take a little while to develop but these forms have a kind of inter logic, an inter dynamic which can be traced and which can be discerned and patterned and recognized. Thank you Father Sp
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