Marshall Mcluhan

Artist statement: Reading Response: I thought Marshall Mcluhan's work was very interesting and very preemptive. His work was made in the 60’s but nevertheless his predictions as to how people would be were dead on. One thing that he said that was very interesting and eerie at the same time is that we are overworked by technology and nothing more than that statement rings true today. We are saturated by pictures, images, billboards, TV commercials because it is the number one medium now. It is how people get to us. We do not read books in libraries anymore because it takes up too much time. We google it to process the information a lot faster by getting a snapshot of it as opposed to taking in complete information. We are definitely more than ever saturated and therefore overworked by technology. We are never not trying to be communicated to because we are easy access because technology in the same coin is easy access.