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

Considers how radio broadcasting has been used historically to develop regional social identities. Includes a description of the Internet as an effect of the launch in 1957 of the Russian satel...

7 minutes, 40 seconds
Published: 10/9/2007

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