First of all what is really interesting about this article is that it was published in the late 60’s 70’s and I never read such an old article. You can tell the article wasn’t written in no 2016. What stood out to me the most is when McLuhan mentions technology in the beginning of his work. He said “Electric Technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life”.
That quote really was interesting since this article was written so long ago that in a way it seemed like he predicted the future in a sense. I say this because technology changed the world completely in all aspects of life if its your social life school,work.personal. Even art has been changed since technology came along just look at photo shop and all these great editing tools that we have now to do all sorts of things that they did not have in the 60’s and 70’s. Anyone remember back when we took a picture and the eyes would be red ? That doesn’t even happen anymore we take great pictures with our own phones that are good quality.
On another note I do feel that technology did help society also in so many different ways. In the 60’s and 70’s if you wanted to see someone you had to personally go to them but today you could video chat with someone in another country with out a problem and they could see you.
Also I remember back when I would take pictures when I was younger I had to take it with a disposable camera that had something called a “film” in it and would buy it at a rite aid and take pictures not knowing how they look and would just hope for the best then take it back to rite aid so they could develope the pictures and once you received the pictures if they were good or bad nothing you could possibly do. Just imagine your self its the day of your children’s birthday party and you took pictures with that camera and once you have them developed and you realize the lighting was to bright or too dark and the pictures look like total crap you cant do anything the party is done the event is over you would just have to suck it up. But in today’s society with digital cameras and phones with cameras we could take as many pictures as we want until we get the perfect picture and can see it right away and upload it to our computers and send it to who ever we like.
Overall technology was a game changer for everyone even our social lives we communicate with out friends through social media and people even find there husbands and wifes off the internet there isn’t no more going outside and looking for a potential partner everything happens online. I would like to see in another 20,30 years how advance technology will be then.