Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan's Spiritual Vision for a Virtual Age Ripatrazone Nick
Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan's Spiritual Vision for a Virtual Age Ripatrazone Nick Marshall McLuhan was the greatest prophet of the digital age. Like most prophets, McLuhan became one through…
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Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan's Spiritual Vision for a Virtual Age Ripatrazone Nick
Marshall McLuhan was the greatest prophet of the digital age. Like most prophets, McLuhan became one through a fascination with God. In the 1960s, McLuhan, a Canadian literary theorist reared on Elizabethan satire and the labyrinthine novels of James Joyce, turned his attention toward the budding and befuddling electronic age.
In other words, the greatest prophet of the digital age was an ardent Christian. Prophets divine their wisdom from a source, and Digital Communion shows that McLuhan's was his own Catholic faith. A reconsideration of his vision can change the way we view the online world.A Catholic convert, McLuhan foretold a digital age full of blessings and sins: a world where information was a phone call or keystroke away, but where our new global village could also bring out the worst in us.
For him, mass media was a form of Mass. McLuhan thought that
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