[Air-l] McLuhan meets the net

McLuhan. The Medium is the Massage (1967) and his next book War and Peace in the Global Village (1968). McLuhan predicted that technology would be an extension of our physical bodies and that electronic technology would enable us to live in a global village. The Internet was

I do not doubt that McLuhan came to his conclusions independently, but folks like JCR Licklider, Doug Engelbart and Vannevar Bush wrote about such things earlier (as did McLuhan). For a discussion of Mcluhan's earlier book, Understanding Media, and the Net see my old article "McLuhan Meets the Net:" http://localhost/som/articles/macl.htm, Larry