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television channel hopping.
“. . . the new technologies are necessarily excluded
from the educational establishment until the elders
have relinquished power. This, of course, leaves the
new technologies entirely in the sphere of
entertainment and games . . .” (1968, p.149)
More recently, a computer literate generation finds
in McLuhan quirky echoes of their own struggle to
make sense of the new mediascape. Playfully
experimenting in basements and garages, some,
notably Bill Gates and Microsoft, parlay their
techno-literacies into successful challenges to the