turn on the tube. It’s a sedative. Within fifteen or 
twenty minutes, I’m ready to sleep.


Q:  The popular assumption is that Marshall 
McLuhan was a prophet of the television age who 
celebrated technology, but there is a pessimism in 
some of his writing about the new media.

A:  What do you mean by pessimism? 


Q:  He seemed to be warning us in some ways 
about the downside of the electronic world.