from Hacker News

The Medium Is the Menace

by ljosifov on 12/24/23, 6:04 PM with 1 comments

• by jruohonen on 12/24/23, 6:20 PM

  "The hammer extends our fist, the spear our teeth, the hut our skin, the wheel our feet—and electronic media our central nervous system."

  "McLuhan said, “[M]an becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world.” In exchange for developing them, media offer us “nectar” in the form of conveniences of all sorts."