This article in the New York Times is perhaps the best explanation of what’s happening to our media environment. Clive Thompson writes an article about the new mobile applications: look in on, and feed your cat while you’re away at work. Keep tabs on where your Alzheimers-affected dad is at.
This is pure McLuhan: technology as an extension of the senses – digital technology as ESP – media as environment – technology inscribing our sensory surroundings…
Not only is it interesting that this stuff gets to a higher ‘whoa’ factor every day – but the people who write about it are increasingly McLuhanesque about it. It’s as if the extent of media shift has made Media Ecology something that is naturally intuitive.
