It was much easier for Hunter S. Thompson to write about drugs. Or Fear and Loathing at the E3 Expo

Provoking article about the need for deeper insights into the real ways technologies are effecting and evolving us.

"Nobody has shown up with that bowl-you-over voice that takes a seemingly alien and marginal activity-- an activity that, like drugs, many in the audience will never even try-- and turns it into a must-read experience."

"But what's the real story-- that we're entertained? We almost need a refresher course in media studies, A la Marshall McLuhan. We should start with McLuhan's quote-- "After more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace"-- and step by step, relearn our relationship to the world."

"And as we spend more of our lives online, more of our experience of the world takes place entirely in our own heads-- and our imagination is being rewired by computers."

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