Reality Chequered - Messages, Mediums and Websurf Divination
“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” - Marshall McLuhan , The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man , The Mechanical Bride , Marshall McLuhan Estate How did I get to the above info? Twitter : I follow Callum Cooper , Telephone Calls from the Dead/ Amazon , and did a quick search to follow his latest activities. That led to a long read he had bookmarked on StrangeHistory: The Earliest Telephone Call from the Dead. Found more than one item of interest in that piece, including this one: source . Another referenced a book called, The Automaton Ear . Curious, I searched and came up with this post on books, NYTimes , detailing the fascinating story of Marshall McLuhan and that review opened up several important issues - Example : In " Understanding Media ," McLuhan suggests that electric modes of communication--telegraph, ...