home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
06939_Field_TCUM T504.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
976b
|
16 lines
horse, the discussion would have been concerned to discover
new jobs for the horse and new kinds of training to extend the
usefulness of the horse. The complete revolution in
transportation and in housing and city arrangement would
have been ignored. The turn of our economy to making and
servicing motorcars, and the devotion of much leisure time to
their use on a vast new highway system, would not even have
been thought of. In other words, it is the framework itself that
changes with new technology, and not just the picture within
the frame. Instead of thinking of doing our shopping by
television, we should become aware that TV intercom means
the end of shopping itself, and the end of work as we know it at
present. The same fallacy besets our thinking about TV and
education. We think of TV as an incidental aid, whereas in fact
it has already transformed the learning process of the young,
quite independently of home and school alike.