Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05564_Field_OMPO T24.txt

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printed word had made us, and he thought there
were all sorts of inspiring and freeing ways, or
opportunities that electronic media would open up.
But as I say, toward the end he was skeptical
about whether or not what he prophesized would
happen. And I would ask him if he’s been paying
attention since he left us, to what’s been going on,
and is he still optimistic, or has he become more
pessimistic. For example, he did think, as Walter
Ong thinks as well, that there would be a
restoration of the oral tradition—Ong calls it
secondary orality—and I look for that all the time
and don’t really see it. So I’d ask him if he sees it
and what am I missing? Is there something that