IVIV (1) There Will be Computers for This

[Doug Millison]

McLuhan argues that print technology and now electronic in fact change  
the human being by altering the "sense ratio" i.e. the relative  
importance of the senses in our daily experience, in _The Gutenberg  
Galaxy_. Shifting from touch, in the manuscript age, McLuhan documents  
the way that vision dominates in the print era, then shows how the  
Tube re-integrates touch and diminishes the importance of the visual  
due to the way the human  nervous system and brain interacts with a TV  
picture, connecting the b&w and, later, the  R G B dots.

>  Michael Bailey
>
> ...isn't the main issue not so much the nature
> of any particular technology, but the social conventions followed by
> the people who use it?  These are by nature
> flexible (ie, there is a bunch of ways you could conceivably build a
> house, staff an assembly line, generate software,
> etc etc)
>