This is the second of two podcasts exploring Marshall McLuhan's ideas about information and communications technologies. Includes an explanation of the importance of the human body in McLuhan's...

10 minutes, 24 seconds
Published: 11/7/2007

Discusses the means by which social software brings together demand and production in a market. Includes a comment on James Beniger's concept of the "soft" control of society through technology...

10 minutes, 12 seconds
Published: 10/22/2007

Thoughts about image technologies and their capacity to help shape social identity. Includes a description of how the abundance of images on the Internet helps to support propaganda.

8 minutes, 14 seconds
Published: 10/15/2007

Discussion of changes in the organization of time and space after the invention of the telegraph. Includes a discussion of ethanol production as an example of unintended consequences.

10 minutes, 02 seconds
Published: 9/21/2007

More about Winston's model of technological change and some thoughts about disruptive technologies. Includes an analysis of the iPod as an innovation that became disruptive by performing at the...

6 minutes, 02 seconds
Published: 9/17/2007

Discussion of how Brian Winston describes technological change in history. Includes comments about the printing press as the first machine with interchangeable parts.

5 minutes, 48 seconds
Published: 9/7/2007

Thoughts about how medium theory can provide insights about new media. Discussion of McLuhan's notion of the lightbulb as a medium.


5 minutes, 31 seconds
Published: 8/27/2007