I'm always amazed at your palette of references that could take a day just to fully digest one of your posts! I'm a real fan of Marshall McLuhan, media sage, who said the artist is the only one who shows us the reality/technology of the future 50 years on. Perhaps the lost inventiveness means at some level we realize all our conceptions of the future are lost as the reality of ever increasing global temperature will "do their thing" to destroy Homo Colossus. Or perhaps we truly have arrived at "The Age of Aquarius" (Doomer Humor sarcasm). (Reference: https://marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/ )
Hi Claude... Indeed I should revisit Marshall McLuhan. He nailed it in the early 90s (was it?) when he said 'electronic media has the potential to neurologically impact, change us'. And it did to a large extent. Detrimentally in ways. We bargained the meaning of the future, and replaced it with rich information, images, sounds, icons and many ghosts from the past.
Agree to all in your reply except he died in 1980. That's the amazing thing about him as a visionary. His conclusions were from extrapolating what he learned about the appearance of print media to human societies centuries ago (McLuhan started out as a "man of letters").
I'm always amazed at your palette of references that could take a day just to fully digest one of your posts! I'm a real fan of Marshall McLuhan, media sage, who said the artist is the only one who shows us the reality/technology of the future 50 years on. Perhaps the lost inventiveness means at some level we realize all our conceptions of the future are lost as the reality of ever increasing global temperature will "do their thing" to destroy Homo Colossus. Or perhaps we truly have arrived at "The Age of Aquarius" (Doomer Humor sarcasm). (Reference: https://marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/ )
Hi Claude... Indeed I should revisit Marshall McLuhan. He nailed it in the early 90s (was it?) when he said 'electronic media has the potential to neurologically impact, change us'. And it did to a large extent. Detrimentally in ways. We bargained the meaning of the future, and replaced it with rich information, images, sounds, icons and many ghosts from the past.
Agree to all in your reply except he died in 1980. That's the amazing thing about him as a visionary. His conclusions were from extrapolating what he learned about the appearance of print media to human societies centuries ago (McLuhan started out as a "man of letters").