Lecture 9 - Summary

Todays lecture was about different electronic media ages and how they evolved.

Follwing is straight from the lecture -
In the first electronic media age only one person would write a letter, make a film, broadcast a radio, and an audience could reveive that message telephone made this different these days. The telephone equalised the position of the sender and receiver both send and receive message with minimum technical and financial resourses

In the second media age -
Internet made is possible for an individual to publish to the audience unlike the first media age where only one person could trasmit and others receive.

Marshall Mcluhan suggests that there are in fact three media ages oral, literate and electric.

Interesting question to think about asked in the lecture
Question: What will our future look like? Are the machines being developed by the humnas lead to a future of sadness where machines take over the world like in matrix or is it going to enhance our future and increase our knowlege.
Answer: I think technology should be used to a limit, we should not produce or create any mechanical things that can harm humans not even for experiment purpose. For example: bots doing mens jobs, giving them sences, wiriting emotion programs for them giviing them the ability to feel. Technology shouldn't be used to a certain extend because the more we develop technology the more we use the natural resources and disturbing the nature is not a good thing.