Internet and computers that television is very, very 
different. So I think the thoughts of McLuhan are 
now coming along with the same evidence that 
television did have a fundamental role. And what 
TV did was to give us a global village, and also a 
public space. TV was a public, a common mind, a 
public space, not the same thing as the common 
mind of Internet at all, more like the space of one’s 
mind. So it is normal for McLuhan to come back to 
the fore to this point. Part of the same churning 
subconscious imagery, the power of that 
particular thinking, the fact that it was very well 
adapted to an understanding of the absolute 
presence of the media around us and our