Today is the 100th birthday of Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian scholar who forever changed the way we think about media and their effects on the human psyche.
Last week I sat down for a conversation with Len Edgerly, host of “The Kindle Chronicles,” on what McLuhan would think about the Kindle, the iPad, and what effects e-readers would have on our perception of text, reading and linearity. The interview grew out of my recent review of Douglas Coupland’s McLuhan biography for Nieman Reports.
Len and I had great fun, and I hope you’ll have a chance to give it a listen.
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of course, we HAVE to share this link, then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBtXfBdEXEs
It was fantastic meeting you and chatting about MM, Dan. Thanks for giving me lots more to consider about him. You are partly to blame for my taking on a daily McLuhan meditation/blog as a way to continue pondering his work and the topics you and I discussed. Cheers.