Watching McLuhan on YouTube... on a phone... is a surreal experience.

It is funny that I am learning what McLuhan has to say about Media by means of YouTube!  How correctly he predicted.

The first thing I thought when watching this is how much more articulate people were back then than we are today.

I bet the interviewer never imagined the media saturation of today. Marshall certainly did! Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant man

"The world is now like a continually sounding tribal drum, where everyone gets the message all the time." Wondered why the people who live in it have a constant migraine.

It's crazy because Gen Z is all about getting rid of 'Individualism' and basically grew up using technology, which explains why so many of us have a 'Tribal' way of thinking about life.

Medium: Television
Program: Explorations
Broadcast Date: May 18, 1960
Guest(s): Marshall McLuhan
Host: Alan Millar, John O'Leary
Duration: 8:44

🏁 Great Canadian here. salutations from Kenya

"Electric information comes from all directions at once and when your information comes from all directions simultaneously you're living in an acoustic world. The acoustic world has no continuity, no homogeneity, no connections and no stasis; everything is changing. Our ancestors lived in a mythic world because they had none of the means of literate classification. A myth is a speeded up following of a process. We live mythically ourselves so that we understand their myths for the first time.
You should know the stakes are; the stakes are our civilization versus tribalism and it's a considerable revolution to have been through twenty-five hundred years of phonetic literacy, only to encounter the end of that road." - Marshall McLuhan

Electronic banking,electronic commerce. Electric buses. Electronic music.

I, too, would like to know what it's like to go on a safari in "Keen-yah." Haha.

Im studyng MclUhan on youtube cause its so much entertained than the boring books...we are definitely on the tribe era.

What is the name of the man who talks about the book at the beginning. He quotes"

"Think for a minute of how one reads. One sits Alone. One eyes scan a line at a time. The authors ideas come to you one at a time off of the page. It’s a private experience. I’ts not a community or family activity. You do this alone."

If someone could please tell me that would be great as I am planning to use this quote in a university dissertation and a full name is essential. Also what year was this produced?

Okay but did you see the transitions?! This is better than every Tiktok video combined

Father of media comunications

This is a trip for real.

This is amazing

Thank you Professor McLuhan i have learned so much ... you were way ahead of your time ... Happy birthday!

You sir, have just saved me and my homework. McLuhan might have thought about this and would find it, like a monster in our days.

WOW , its today !