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permitting instantaneous retrieval and
engendering learning styles suited to those weaned
on VCRs and video games.
Artists are the antennae of the race, McLuhan
believed, providing distant early warnings for the
culture. Morphing becomes the techno-artistic
signature of wider cultural transformations.
Conventional boundaries blur in the art of music
videos, as Michael Jackson morphs black into white,
male into female. Audiences marvel at movies such
as Terminator Two , and crude cartoons such as
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers .