Media is the Massage
I agree with this excerpt. McLuhan believed that eventually machines will take over the jobs that humans have held. A job as simple as a toll teller could have fed a family of 4, but now there is few need for a teller. With a new technology called “EZPass”, cars can go through tolls, and pay the toll later on credit. It causes little crowds and easy moving. With this technology, people have found themselves looking for another job. In factories, machines are helping create products. Machine power beats human power. What can take a machine several minutues, can take a person several hours. We wouldn’t need tutors to teach us new material. We can learn via the internet. We can learn different languages through a software called Rosetta Stone. It probably wouldn’t take long before there is a robot cutting my hair. Hopefully it’ll be one that can do a better job than my hair stylist.
