permitting instantaneous retrieval and 
engendering learning styles suited to those weaned 
on VCRs and video games.

Artists are the antennae of the race, McLuhan 
believed, providing distant early warnings for the 
culture. Morphing becomes the techno-artistic 
signature of wider cultural transformations. 
Conventional boundaries blur in the art of music 
videos, as Michael Jackson morphs black into white, 
male into female. Audiences marvel at movies such 
as Terminator Two , and crude cartoons such as 
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers .