Frank Patrick

The Big Ideas podcast: The medium is the message

A new podcast from The Guardian plans to offer up short analyses of “Big Ideas”. While I would have preferred more than 10 minutes on the prescient philosopher of media, Marshall McLuhan, what they do with those 10 minutes is excellent.

One bit I didn’t know was that the title of “The Medium is the Massage” was a typo that McLuhan liked and kept, conflating the mess-age with the mass-age.

I look forward to subsequent episodes.

[Cross-posted on Google+]

[Note: a previous post on McLuhan.]

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