What’s That Twitter Imp Up To?
Is Jack Dorsey a leftist libertarian who doesn't like Twitter's hegemony?
Category: Technology
Listening to Podcasts at Oxford in 1374 and Kansas in 1974
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 …
Cell Phones, Radio, and the Philosophy of Marshall McLuhan
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, …
Is the Netflix Documentary a Paean to Catholic Convert and Daily Communicant Marshall McLuhan?
The Social Dilemma uses the intellectual framework built by McLuhan, but the similarities stop there
Ben Franklin and the Mouse
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 …
The Architecture of Speed
Thoughts build your everyday existence. Technology affects your thoughts. The implications? Ask Marshall McLuhan.
Did Video Bring Us BLM, Riots, and COVID Hysteria?
Postman called television a propagator of “irrelevance, impotence, and incoherence.”
How Have These Ten Extensions Changed Us?
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.
Wednesday
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 …
Friday
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 …
Thursday
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 …
Monday
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 …