https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/tag/tler/ https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/tag/tler/rss/ episodic Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:35:50 GMT Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:35:50 GMT https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/tag/tler/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trbouma/assets/main/profile_pic_crop.png Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:35:50 GMT https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/post/note1h2hu6ap8jkmep2g8xxq0xlth4ngrryg3zwpjeutgwvcqnzlgvjdqajs6xk/ https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/post/note1h2hu6ap8jkmep2g8xxq0xlth4ngrryg3zwpjeutgwvcqnzlgvjdqajs6xk/ note1h2hu6ap8jkmep2g8xxq0xlth4ngrryg3zwpjeutgwvcqnzlgvjdqajs6xk tler note1h2hu6ap8jkmep2g8xxq0xlth4ngrryg3zwpjeutgwvcqnzlgvjdqajs6xk npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 “Whenever any new medium or human extension occurs, it creates a new myth for itself, usually associated with a major figure: Napoleon and the trauma of industrial change; Chaplin, the public conscience of the movie; H#tler, the tribal totem of radio; Florence Nightingale, human woe by telegraph wire, and Satoshi Nakamoto, freedom of transaction with permissionless electric money.”

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964 (slightly updated to reflect 2024)

]]> “Whenever any new medium or human extension occurs, it creates a new myth for itself, usually associated with a major figure: Napoleon and the trauma of industrial change; Chaplin, the public conscience of the movie; H#tler, the tribal totem of radio; Florence Nightingale, human woe by telegraph wire, and Satoshi Nakamoto, freedom of transaction with permissionless electric money.”

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964 (slightly updated to reflect 2024)

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