take a direct lineage and trace it back in your own 
family tree, putting all the changes, technologies, 
in their lifetime together, they will not equal the 
number of changes in technology within a single 
lifetime now.


Q:  It’s said that McLuhan was in some ways a 
traditionalist. Do you think he would he have 
welcomed such rapid change?

A:  Today’s environment is fertile ground for 
discovery for McLuhan. He loved the maelstrom, 
the whirling vortex. He used Edgar Allen Poe’s