Response to Article: Navigating Technomedia

     This article is basically a review of a few previous articles that we read. Namely, The Written Word: From Printing to the Internet. There is also more on Marshall McLuhan's "Medium is the Message".
     I would like to discuss a few aspects of this reading:
1) The false hopes of modernity under the guise of advancement and
2)New World Order
3)Single Technology Applications
     The reading touches upon the advent of the internet. As I remember, it was perceived as something that would change the world. It is stated that it would help democracy spread throughout the world. I believe that it only helped spread the word of what inevitably would have happened. It was not the internet that specifically started the movement of nations towards democracy. It was a tool to spread the word of democracy. Two distinctly different perspectives. Of course, not everyone may agree with my opnion.
     There is also mention of the New World Order. I believe that we are in an age of a new order. The internet has helped shape and streamline improvements in many areas. Specifically, communication on the business level. This has had a huge impact on the global economy. It is a very good reason why there is high unemployment rates in the Western World.
   Finally, I never thought about it before but to view television one would have to pruchace a T.V. That is not the case anymore since a cel phone enables a person to view T.V., take pictures and place events in leiu of a calendar now days. It is truly an amazing world that we live in.