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Saturday, March 12, 2011

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Marshall McLuhan: One of the best who ever did it!

For more than 20 years, my information communication technology (ICT) career has been fueled by the writings of Marshall McLuhan. Yet his material seems like it was written yesterday. He had a gift to write and speak in the moment (i.e. past, present and future). "We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies." Imagine being haunted by your enemy which is a digital equivalent of yourself. His material challenges whether humans have evolved beyond Darwin's limited concept of biological evolution, and whether our digital technology will utilmately evolve beyond us. (Read More)

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