Counter Blast

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Summary: Information age philosophy in a nontraditional format.
Review: I liked this book. The text is presented in an alternative fashion that really makes you think. Marshall McLuhan portrays his philosophy that the written language and industrial technology lead to a non-tribal life style, and a less feeling society, and that the new information age (television and computers) are leading society back to a tribal, verbal, more feeling society. In Counterblast, McLuhan uses an unorthodox style of text, text as an artform, versus text that is read left to right, to make his point. This book may have been written in the sixties, but a lot of what he has to say is still pertinent to today's information society. I do not agree with all his views on Television. In that some of the things he saw as benefits, thirty years later I see them as blights. It does make me wonder though, if thirty years from now the things I currently veiw as benefits of the PC, will still be viewed as benefits.