McLuhan with Tony Schwartz at Tony’s Studio, 1966 (audio)

Bob’s Notes

Payday 

NOTE:Timing based on Payday archives.

the world as a recording studio 
17:01

humor as a mark of sanity 
18:08

games as extensions, art forms, and mass media 
18:52

shouting "fire!" for help 
29:08

more on humor 
31:01

"Sports Illustrated" Magazine 
31:22

the instant playback 
32:03

everybody now has the work of royalty 
32:45

"the entire population of the world can be comfortably fed and housed in West Germany or Montana" 
34:01

definition of "mass" as "acquiring infinite mass" (see the illusion of "the population explosion") 
34:37

how elections are obsolete 
36:00

using TV to have the audience solve top problems 
37:14

McLuhan says he's not necessarily positive about his suggestions 
38:20

inner judgment of people is now externalized and instant 
38:54

people are now terrified of capital punishment (nobody is to blame anymore) 
39:22

the Uncertainty Principle and how it applies to "information" 
40:03 

the final extension/externalizing of "the activity of consciousness" 
40:44

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