But that meant I ain’t got nobody else. You’re saying I ain’t got nobody else, I ain’t got my own body, my own identity anymore, I’ve somehow lost that in this process of high technology abstraction.

McLuhan: So inner trip takes the place of outer trip. The right hemisphere is an inner trip, world of fantasy. And today what we call news is fantasy. It moves at the speed of light and it lasts about the same amount of time. By the way, that’s another feature, at the speed of light, you lose the power of recall. Attention span gets very short and recall gets very short. So, in educational terms that’s a big problem. You’re dealing with students who have very little attention span and very little power of recall.

Forsdale: Anything we can do about it?