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To: bitt

In the early ‘60s, Marshall McLuhan made the point in “Understanding Media” that it was the artistic types who would see the long-term societal impact of modern technology far more than the inventors, investors, or government types.

The dystopian movies of the 60s-80s touch on some of these dangers, and many were based on dystopian books or short stories.

Andy Warhol’s prediction of everyone becoming famous for 15 minutes became more true than the folks in his time could have imagined.


11 posted on 10/03/2022 7:29:53 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: Dr. Sivana

Good points. I had a book by McLuhan, The Medium is the Message, and it was cool. He sometimes said the “medium is the massage”, lol.


15 posted on 10/03/2022 8:24:31 PM PDT by avenir (Information overload = Pattern recognition)
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