I have an exam coming. It is more or less centered of the works of this funny fellow named Marshall McLuhan.

Of course he was a very famous scholar, author of many now mainstream expressions like "the global village" we are supposed to live in, "the medium is the message", and so on: really a genius, he foresaw many technical aspects and social uses and consequences of the media we are currently using and "living in".

The only problem is that he liked to write somehow cryptic prose, with examples just sketched and never really explained, so you just go on reading, hoping for the explanation to come... but it does not. :(

Today, i found at the CBC archive some old radio and TV shows in which he was interviewed: problably he was delivering "McLuhan for dummies" presentations, but it really shed some light where its book had failed (At least, on me).

So now I have some lessons directly from him to listen to. Now try to do it without the 'net.

Also, I noticed there are no TV shows here and now that would deal with such themes: we of course like much more important things. Back to the '60s?