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information, moving toward the technological
extension of consciousness.” (1964, p.57)
As he predicted, information has become the chief
business of the world. Media and technologies have
transformed every aspect of life and culture, and
are themselves metamorphosing (or converging)
into hybrids under digital conditions. Recent
developments are driven by media, not messages, a
point reflected in the generic terms used to
describe the emerging environment: multimedia,
and the metaphorical information highway.
McLuhan observed that new media take the old as