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about how we had now with electric and electronic
technology extended our very central nervous
system and brain, globally. Well you can see why
many critics would be frustrated. How do they pin
down this statement? How do you exactly analyze
this? But by the same token you can see why this
would excite so many others, because he appears
to be talking about the Internet. Or he appears to
at least be providing an untried and unexhausted
model for looking into the possibilities of
understanding phenomena like the Internet. By the
same token, I think that the other side of the
relevance of McLuhan for us now, lies in the fact
that he insistently directed attention to changes in