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What argument would have been made 100 years ago? Are we living in a steam engine?


That we are living in a book. Note that the popular plot device of being trapped in one (or more) books survived intact as being trapped in the TV and being trapped in a virtual reality game.

If you watch kid's cartoon series, you know that this plot device is as inevitable as the Freaky Friday contrivance.


Yeah, that's precisely the point I was trying to make (I think). It's the same basic mental model, "we ARE the technology we use." As it evolves, so does the theory.


Like McLuhan said, "We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us."


Exactly. Different observer, different models.




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