McLuhan’s dreams of a global village have pretty well come true. What he never predicted is the nervousness of the viewer’s response to all this.
McLuhan’s dreams of a global village have pretty well come true. What he never predicted is the nervousness of the viewer’s response to all this.
“Nor do machines manifest that ironical surplus or excess functioning which contributes the pleasure, or suffering, thanks to which human beings transcend their determinations – and thus come closer to their raison d ‘être. Alas for the machine, it can never transcend its own operation – which, perhaps, explains the profound melancholy of the computer. All machines are celibate.”
Jean Baudrillard | The Transparency of Evil