The global village
by Marshall McLuhan · first published 1989
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This is me. I hate it. I'm working though (ever so slowly) The Global Village by Marshall McLuhan and I really like the metaphor technology going from Visual to Acoustic. Put another way the past had a serial enforcement we don't have today with always-on connections and easy access…
on “It's getting harder to focus every day” ↗Yep -- check out Marshall McLuhan & the Global Village, which he put out in the 60s. Very prescient.
on “What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)” ↗A good quote from an article I was recently reading (The Cultural Paradox of the Global Village - http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/article_culturalparadox.htm) If attention is the most valuable commodity, our most valued asset, it may be said that the most valuable personal skill to be effective…
on “"Running a startup is a great way to learn how to, and how not to, ignore the right things."” ↗Marshall McLuhan came up with the concept of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village, which may be relevant here.
on “Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter” ↗Also Marshall McLuhan (with references to earlier works, like Sapir 1933): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village Also this sounds prescient: > No chapter in Understanding Media, later books, contains the idea that the global village and the electronic media create unified communities. In an interview with Gerald…
on “Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collector” ↗