McLuhan on automation
poetized from "Understanding Media," Chapter 33 'Automation: Learning a Living'
“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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