Extension of Man
Posted on September 21, 2005 at 09:09 AM by sj695
I decided that I should write a entry today since we have to show our website/journals for Communications Lab.
I've been reading Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media - The Extension of Man, we were required to read chapters 1, 8 and 9, but I've been reading the entire book. This is a very insiteful book that I'll probaly read again after I finish (it's a bit of a hard read). It's amazing that it was written in the 1960's and how it applies to so much of today's media including the Internet. I haven't finish the book yet, I'm currently on chapter 11 - Numbers. I wonder as I read the book what McLuhan would have thought of the Internet, especially in chapters like Roads and Paper Routes. If the discovery of paper from China "accelerated education and commerce steadily from the eleventh century, and prodived the basis for 'the Renaissance of the twelfth century'" what will the Internet do for this century. Ahh, what a great time to be alive.
Gotta go I have class in 2 minutes.
Imagine and Discover,
Steve