, who performed in conjunction with talks by Marshall McLuhan, introduced Brockman to several scientists and eventually arranged for him to meet McLuhan and his colleagues. In cyberspace. Brockman is best known for Edge.org. a site he founded as a continuation of what he describes as "a failed art

technology: "flower steering for the mind". 18 One of the concepts that people were talking about in the late 60s was `thecollective conscious". McLuhan made specific reference to it on many occasions. Cage used to talk about "the mind we all share". The cultural anthropologist Edward T Hall, who

G, who performed in conjunction with talksby Marshall McLuhan, introduced Brockman to several scientists and eventually arranged for him to meet McLuhan and his colleagues. In cyberspace, Brockman is best known for Edgeorg, a site he founded as a continuation of what he describes as "a failed art

from lots of the responses (and not just Nick Carr's, either). And the meme about our tools shaping us surfaced again and again in the essays. 18 McLuhan is certainly central to INSIDE TRACK Edge members share their opinions about MARTIN REES Ex-president of the Royal Society, professor of cosmolog

en ist, die Kunst und die Wissenschaft und die psychedelischen, sen Stroboskopblitzen durchzuckten Shows, durch deren Klanggewirr ein Mar- shall McLuhan seine kommunikationstheo- retischen Botschaften posaunt. Im Esalen Institute, dein kaliforni- schen Bewusstseinslabor am Pazifik, hört er Vorträge

Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventing electronic technologies we had externalized our central nervous system—that is, our minds—and that we now had to presume tha

s of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. In the Introduction to the second edition of his book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan noted the ability of art to “anticipate future social and technological developments.” Art is “an early alarm system,” pointing us to new development

Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventing electronic technologies we had externalized our central nervous system—that is, our minds—and that we now had to presume tha

s of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. In the Introduction to the second edition of his book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan noted the ability of art to “anticipate future social and technological developments.” Art is “an early alarm system,” pointing us to new development