Category: Technology
Is Jack Dorsey a leftist libertarian who doesn't like Twitter's hegemony?
Do you like those conversational podcasts? It's no surprise they're so popular. People have been enjoying the conversational approach to learning for thousands of years. We just lost the …
Marshall McLuhan's central theory is that human modes of thinking are altered by media. Media are “extensions” of ourselves, things that add themselves on to what we already are, …
The Social Dilemma uses the intellectual framework built by McLuhan, but the similarities stop there
The crippling of my power of attention was frightening. In addition, I recalled Simone Weil’s observation that, “In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor …
Thoughts build your everyday existence. Technology affects your thoughts. The implications? Ask Marshall McLuhan.
Postman called television a propagator of “irrelevance, impotence, and incoherence.”
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.
Ride the Wave I came into an easy $80 a few weeks ago, so I splurged on something that has long intrigued me: a shortwave radio. I bought a …
Received in an Email My computer guy saw yesterday’s post and emailed further suggestions to me. I pass them along as a public service: “Don’t click OK or CANCEL …
Cyber Hell Man, whatta rotten week of technology. My computer at the office got hacked. The following is a memorandum (redacted as appropriate) that I circulated to all attorneys …
iPad Review I bought one ten days ago. It’s really cool, but I’m not convinced it’s worth the price. It doesn’t do one key thing that I was told …