Douglas Coupland on Marshall McLuhan, 20 January 2018

BBC

Author Douglas Coupland explores the ideas, sound and vision of Marshall McLuhan.

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“Drawing on cutting-edge thinking about networks and cybernetics, McLuhan foresaw a fully wired, connected world, which would bring to an end the isolated consumption of print. New cross-border (effectively online) communities would form, breaking old political barriers, creating genuinely new kinds of electronic identity. But with this McLuhan offered a warning: older ideas of privacy and the self would evaporate under new media he said, leading to the rise of what he called ‘discarnate’ man – the lost, disembodied user extended across an unrelenting, unforgiving electronic global nervous system.”