Quick Thoughts on Carr, McLuhan and Horkheimer

Marshall McLuhan’s Global Village—particularly in its digital-age variant—makes information ubiquitous, universal, instantaneous, and continuous, stoking in audiences a strong and ceaseless appetite for the Now. Whatever you know is already out of date. Even knowing the Now is not enough. We need to know the Next—which is, of course, impossible. Nothing is so marketable as Next, …