through. Where are we going is a big question, 
past the transition itself. Will we still need to 
refresh our memories of how the transition 
occurred, at which point we will need McLuhan the 
way we will need Freud forever. Or, the transition 
will be self-sufficient and completed, to the extent 
that it becomes kind of transparent and we are 
onto something else. Something really very 
different. It has to be really very different for us 
to forget the past. 

I can’t answer that question readily. I know that at 
some time I will be able to answer that question. I’m 
fascinated by it. The reason I say I cannot answer