The Technology Prophet: Mind-blowing Insight and Media Theories with Marshall McLuhan
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The Effects of Electric Technology on the Nervous System
electromagnetism seems to be in its technological manifestations and extension of our nerves because mainly an information system. One of the effects of switching over to circuitry from mechanical Moving parts and wheels Is an enormous increase in the amount of information that is moving? Yeah, you cannot cope with vast amounts of information in the old fragmentary classified patterns You tend to go Looking for mythic and structural forms In order to manage such complex data and moving at very high speed so the Electric engineers often speak of pattern recognition.
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