From: John Joseph Bachir
To: MEA AT lists DOT ibiblio DOT org
Date: Nov 19, 2005 10:12 PM
Subject: M.M. quote
A very important academic issue: what is the best M.M. quote to get
engraved on my Video iPod?
Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life.
The most human thing about us is our technology.
In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin.
Omnipresence has become an ordinary human dimension.
All mankind as our skin.
that’s what 100% of the respondents (2 or 3 others) have said so far, so i’ll go with it.
although i did send the same question to the media ecology association email list, and there were 4 or 5 respondents, each who provided a quote of their own.
From: Scott Bennett
“Stupidity is no excuse for not thinking.”
It works in any situation.
SB
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From: Corey Anton
For the “Video iPod” : “Apocalypse is our only hope.”
Corey Anton
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From: Bruce Gronbeck
Go for: We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.
(You’ll find in various iterations, not to mention slight rewordings,
in several places in McL.) –Bruce
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From: Alex Kuskis
In the context, I like:
Invention is the mother of necessities.
or
Tomorrow is our permanent address.
Then there’’s:
I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt.
……….Alex Kuskis
From: Peter Fallon
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It speaks, and yet says nothing!” (Understanding Media)
–PKF
Would McLuhan say the ipod is a cool or a hot medium?