Tim Bouma on Nostr: “Whenever any new medium or human extension occurs, it creates a new myth for ...
“Whenever any new medium or human extension occurs, it creates a new myth for itself, usually associated with a major figure: Napoleon and the trauma of industrial change; Chaplin, the public conscience of the movie; H#tler, the tribal totem of radio; Florence Nightingale, human woe by telegraph wire, and Satoshi Nakamoto, freedom of transaction with permissionless electric money.”
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964 (slightly updated to reflect 2024)
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