The big easychair

Here is a set of quotes I found at Kevin Kelly’s Technium blog. Kelly was the first to use the word technium to describe the inseparability of man from technology. That is, being technological is what makes us human. He believes that as time goes on we will become more and more entwined with our technology because technology is an extension of us. Kelly is quoting from Douglas Coupland’s, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work. McLuhan is most famous for having said, “the medium is the message.”  If you have ever given up television for a couple months, and upon watching again for the first time felt your muscles and mind relax, this is what McLuhan meant. It is not what you watch, but that you watch.