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McLuhan on automation

McLuhan on automation

poetized from "Understanding Media," Chapter 33 'Automation: Learning a Living'

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May 16, 2025
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“Total interdependence is the starting point.”

Panic not about automation

Fear not that uniformity rules it

Projections of such are mired in standard mechanical thinking

The age of mechanical specialism is now past

Self-employment and artistic autonomy

are now rampant, automatically.

Electric energy is independent

creating patterns of decentralization and diver…

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