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turn on the tube. It’s a sedative. Within fifteen or
twenty minutes, I’m ready to sleep.
Q: The popular assumption is that Marshall
McLuhan was a prophet of the television age who
celebrated technology, but there is a pessimism in
some of his writing about the new media.
A: What do you mean by pessimism?
Q: He seemed to be warning us in some ways
about the downside of the electronic world.