“The road is our major architectural form.”
When taken literally as a paved road that transports vehicles, this is a sad thing to think about. The road is primitive and ugly, scarring the natural beauty of the planet. The internet as a road will become the major architectural form for the transportation of information and ideas, and is much less damaging to the natural world in that aspect.
“The future of the book is the blurb.”
I think this assignment proves this quote. Instead of reading a book we are reading blogs, and a lot of people read more blogs than they read books. I think more people are reading blogs because the blog allows you to form a community with people you otherwise would not be able to build a community with.
1 comment:
Michael:
This are both pretty interesting comments. A comment to parallel the first probe: "The road is our skyscraper."
Second probe: McLuhan seemed to understand how the summary is needed in the modern age. I would have loved to have heard what he would have thought of blogs.
R Hughes
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