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Where is AI headed? Two media theorists from the 1960s can help us figure it out

The 1960s were a time of great change in technology, culture and politics. Television was radically altering the media environment, and nobody was quite sure how to think about it.

The Conversation

Lorne Michaels' genius is judgment

Susan Morrison's biography offers the fullest portrait yet of the elusive creator of "Saturday Night Live"

Salon

As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here’s why I hate Fate

When the most profound human emotion becomes an automated transaction in an online shop, the techlords have won

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How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT

Some writers appear so accurate in their assessment of where society and technology is taking us that they have attracted the label “prophet”. Think of J. G. Ballard, Octavia E. Butler, Marshall McLuhan, or Donna Haraway.

The Conversation

6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan

Today’s large language models (LLMs) process information across disciplines at unprecedented speed and are challenging higher education to rethink teaching, learning and disciplinary structures.

The Conversation

Truth and lies, trust and doubt: how should we be navigating the misinformation crisis?

“Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.”

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"Are the 8-year-olds and 10-year-olds dreaming of owning a PlayStation 6?": Netflix gaming boss thinks consoles and controllers will "restrain us"

"I'm not wanting to quote Marshall McLuhan saying 'the medium is the content'"

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How Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan influenced today’s multi-sensory museums

In recent decades, museums and galleries have made a sensory turn when it comes to designing displays and engaging visitors.

The Conversation

A ‘TV Garden?’ How video artist Nam June Paik anticipated pressing environmental questions

In a world facing an ecological crisis, creating a new relationship with nature has become essential.

The Conversation

Amplifying the Message: The Right Medium Matters

How can media organizations leverage the unique strengths of the medium to foster deeper understanding, promote enhanced engagement, and ultimately, a more informed and connected society?

TV Tech

Fox lessons: Time to break up Big Media

Of course Dominion was out for a payday — we can't expect capitalism to bring down Fox News and save democracy

Salon

Videodrome at 40: David Cronenberg’s singular tech horror remains relevant

The boundary-pushing auteur asks how far is too far in a smart and slimy film about sadomasochism and the potential dangers of technology

The Guardian - US

Artist Nick Cave tackles a new challenge: Making tiny, artful cheesecakes with Eli’s Cheesecake

CHICAGO — The medium may indeed be the message, as Marshall McLuhan once told us, but what to make of a recent morning watching a group of people making messages and then eating them with delight?

Chicago Tribune

What links Beavis and Butt-Head to Kristen Stewart, via David Cronenberg?

Ease yourself into the rabbit hole, with Douglas Coupland and the slacker generation

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Twitter town square: what Elon Musk could learn from Aristotle

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and founder of Tesla and SpaceX, recently made an offer to buy the social media network Twitter for $44 billion. In a statement Musk declared

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The COVID-19 pandemic pushed social media to become increasingly tribal

Media theorist Marshall McLuhan suggested that each media-related extension of man comes at the expense of another organ. For example, by increasing reliance on visual media, we lose touch with oral communication.

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