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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