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1.26 The Electronic Age Part 2: A Brief History of Electronic Technologies and Mcluhan's Thoughts
Manage episode 299820598 series 2938738
“In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness...we can translate more and more of ourselves into other forms of expression that exceed ourselves.”
-Marshall Mcluhan
"This is a marvel of the universe:
To fling a thought across a stretch of sky—
Some weighty message, or a yearning cry,
It matters not; the elements rehearse
Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse
The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly
Unswervingly, until, upreached on high,
A quickened hand plucks off the message terse.
Toward this man moved since first with whetted stone
He carved strange symbols on the cavern wall,
And proudly turned unto his watching mate.
Through this in travail do his offspring groan
Toward an ideal's love-frought, imperious call
That bids the spheres become articulate."
-"Wireless," by Josephine Peabody (1910)
48 episodes
Manage episode 299820598 series 2938738
“In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness...we can translate more and more of ourselves into other forms of expression that exceed ourselves.”
-Marshall Mcluhan
"This is a marvel of the universe:
To fling a thought across a stretch of sky—
Some weighty message, or a yearning cry,
It matters not; the elements rehearse
Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse
The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly
Unswervingly, until, upreached on high,
A quickened hand plucks off the message terse.
Toward this man moved since first with whetted stone
He carved strange symbols on the cavern wall,
And proudly turned unto his watching mate.
Through this in travail do his offspring groan
Toward an ideal's love-frought, imperious call
That bids the spheres become articulate."
-"Wireless," by Josephine Peabody (1910)
48 episodes
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