The medium is the message
The book âThe Medium is the Massageâ written by Marshall McLuhan is 1967. The book talks about how the media has taken over humans. The book is relevant to the current affairs till date, and it is way ahead of its time period. Some of the initial pages which we discussed.
In the chapter YOU from the book McLuhan the power of being YOU and its importance were talked about. Due to the mechanical technology the thoughts are your no more. It talks about how we are not secure anymore like before were secure without technology. McLuhan also talks about how there is no more privacy in our life, because telephone used which were being taped and anyone can gain anyoneâs information. We can relate to our period where there is no privacy anymore in the internet and technology. It impacted everything, there was no concept of time and space due to the internet because anyone can connect anywhere for example a person can send a message to someone who is on another continent in a click. It also talks about work from home, as earlier people are dependent on livelihood but now due to the internet one can work alone without communications. The childrens have lost their childhood because of the internet as there is no line between adulthood and childhood. The Internet has totally changed education. We are never taught to believe what we should hear instead were taught to believe what we see. We are used to the fact that one has to ignore the unwanted when it hears.
Socrates believes the invention of writing will bring forgetfulness instead of memorizing people will depend on external writing by which the humans will think about themselves as they know everything about they have no idea about anything.
The name of the book was actually The Medium is the Message but due to the printing press mistake it became The Medium is the Massage but McLuhan didn't change the name back to its original as this incident conveys what the book wants to say.
















