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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
For McLuhan this was prerequisite to the creation of global consciousness—global knowing. “Today,” he wrote, “we have extended our central nervous systems in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned. Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man—the technological simulation of consciousness,
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James Q. Wilson and George Kelling
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
So what we now have is a media environment that is like the natural state of the brain. It encourages that process of bouncing from one thing to another.
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
Sora • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Teachers are thought of as messengers for whatever standardized curriculum the school district spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on. Believing that the magic is in the material, not in the teacher. Efficiency and control have replaced ingenuity and empowerment.
Steve Magness • Do Hard Things
Ogilvy on Advertising and Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. In
Christopher Lochhead • Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
Miller’s 1986 “Deride and Conquer,” far and away the best essay ever published about network advertising, details vividly an example of how TV’s contemporary kind of appeal to the lone viewer works.