Comments on: What Marshall McLuhan Knew About Social Media

By: Paul Daigle

Paul Daigle — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:02:07 +0000

My mind is blown. How can this possibly be 1964??! McLuhan had a better handle on the future of media than we do living in that future. A true genius. I’m going to use this video in my work. Thanks a million Suze!! Goes to show that when we take the time to look at our history, we often find the answers for today.

By: Michael O'Connor Clarke

Michael O'Connor Clarke — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:57:36 +0000

Superb stuff, Suze, and exceptionally well summarized. I’ve been opening presentations with a slide of McLuhan for a while now – calling him “The Father of Social Media”. I agree that if he was around today he’d no doubt be nodding sagely and smiling a knowing, “told you” kind of smile.

Would be fantastic to know what he’d be projecting for the next generation of media consumers, were he only still around to tell us. Even extrapolating from some of his ideas through to what we have now is enough to boggle my mind completely.

Thanks for this.

By: Heresiarch

Heresiarch — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:11:50 +0000

I rescued from cassette this talk that Marshall McLuhan gave at Johns Hopkins University in the mid 1970s. I have not found an audio file of this talk anywhere online. So far as I know it's an original contribution to the archive of McLuhan audio. Enjoy. Rare McLuhan Audio

By: Shawn McCormick

Shawn McCormick — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:15:00 +0000

Wow! This is awesome. I’ve heard lots of his snippets over the years but this stuff is nothing but amazing given when it was taped. His choice of “electronic media” instead of saying the television/telephone makes it so easy to close your eyes and imagine this was taped yesterday…

Now I want to find the rest of the interview and see what happens to the adolescents!