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Future Shock - EndtheMadnessNow - 05-14-2023 Future shocks are rapid advancements that severely disrupt society. In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then spun it into one of the most mind-bending comments on identity in the digital age that is quite profound. Excerpt clip: Quote:McLuhan: Yes because we now have the means to keep everybody under surveillance. Then no matter what part of the world we are in we can put them under surveillance. It has become one of the main occupations of mankind just watching other people and keeping a record of their goings-on and invading privacy. The invading privacy in fact just ignoring that it's a everybody has become porous, they got to let the light and the message go right through us. And by the way at this moment right we are on the air and we at on the air we do not have any physical body when you're on the telephone or on radio or on TV, you don't have a physical body you're just an image on the air. When you don't have a physical body you're a discarded being. You have a very different relation to the world around you and this I think has been one of the big effects of the electric age. It has deprived people really of their private identity. Full interview If you’re interested in the concepts discussed here, "Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler is a fantastic book by the way, he perfectly encapsulates on the page 50 years ago much of what we experience today: Future Shock (1970) by Alvin Toffler - PDF copy, 580 pages Marshall McLuhan: "FUTURE SHOCK ... is where it's at." Excerpt from his book: Quote:Intro para: Page 11-12: Quote:Future shock will not be found in Index Medicus or in any listing of psychological abnormalities. Yet, unless intelligent steps are taken to combat it, millions of human beings will find themselves increasingly disoriented, progressively incompetent to deal rationally with their environments. The malaise, mass neurosis, irrationality, and free-floating violence already apparent in contemporary life are merely a foretaste of what may lie ahead unless we come to understand and treat this disease. Alot of what Toffler wrote about is summarized in this Orson Welles Future Shock Documentary (1972): RE: Future Shock - F2d5thCav - 05-15-2023 "They" say quantum computing will defeat all known existing crypto. That should be fun, sure to generate some chaos. Cheers |