Tag: mcluhan
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My Outsourced Memory
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” Marshall McLuhan Those of us who depend on modern technology to externalize memory storage are just the latest iteration of a long tide of human adaptation. Strategies to make the most of our biological capabilities were developed over countless generations in oral cultures. The invention of writing…
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The Message of the AI Medium
We Shape Our Tools, and Thereafter Our Tools Shape Us Marshall Mcluhan Marshall McLuhan wasn’t interested in what we do with technology. He explored how technology changes who we are, individually and collectively, psychologically and culturally; for better or worse. Technological breakthroughs cascade in ways we can’t foresee when they first appear: The medium is…
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