As a somewhat serious casual student of Mcluhan (reading of key books, his letters, etc.) I will simply add:
1. Mcluhan didn't "miss" the internet at all he just referred to it as electric technology and was fully aware of the principles of the web as medium when he authored Extensions of Man
2. @Avivo he really wasn't too naive - he repeatedly wrote that he had never seen evidence any society had ever been able to educate and control the effects of media on itself.
ps: @cobbzilla- Postman is in any close reading a terrible interpreter of MC.
1. Mcluhan didn't "miss" the internet at all he just referred to it as electric technology and was fully aware of the principles of the web as medium when he authored Extensions of Man 2. @Avivo he really wasn't too naive - he repeatedly wrote that he had never seen evidence any society had ever been able to educate and control the effects of media on itself.
ps: @cobbzilla- Postman is in any close reading a terrible interpreter of MC.