The medium is the massage

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1. odirootJan 2025
   Or way older and much more eloquent (albeit less digestible) "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman. Or even older "The Medium Is the Massage" by Marshall McLuhan.
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2. hypertextheroApr 2024
   See also The Medium is the Massage, a very illuminating book:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage

   https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-medium-is-the-massage-revis...

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3. brohoolioJan 2024
   For folks who don’t know, this is a great read and explores how we are connected and communicate is more important than what is communicated. Highly highly recommend.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage

   The slightly alternative title is a play on words that was originally an error.

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4. okareamanDec 2021
   After listening to The Medium is the Massage, I thought he was prescient on several things, like everything happening in the now, more information means more patterns to discern, the global village and the ill effects of everyone getting into everyone's business. I didn't follow a few others, like young people really getting into roles because of TV (Shakespeare said it better) and getting the story out of the way to the point of not even having a story somehow leads to more involvement by the viewer and more understanding of the material. That last one is really suspect.
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5. whoisburbanskyJan 2021
   Solidly agree on all points, just wanted to plug a podcast favorite of mine, Philosophize This!, for a less daunting introduction to McLuhan's ideas [1] than "go read a couple hundred pages of fairly dense media theory books."*

   1. https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-149-on-medi...

   * Of course, I enjoyed the podcast episode so much that I did end up going on to read The Gutenberg Galaxy and The Medium Is the Massage [sic], and wholeheartedly recommend both.

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6. tremeJul 2018
   Mcluhan's work would be right up your alley then.

   Medium is the Massage; Gutenberg Galaxy would be my top 2 recommendation given what you wrote.

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