(The following is the manuscript for episode eleven of season one of the Breaking the Digital Spell podcast, which premiered on October 30th, 2018. Available wherever you get your podcasts, or you can listen online here.) “Media ecologist Marshall McLuhan reminded his generation that technology is always an extension of the self. A fork is simply an extension of my hand. My car is an extension of my arms and feet, and no less so than Fred Flintstone’s foot mobile. Likewise, my smartphone extends my cognitive functions. The active neurons in my brain are a crackling tangle of skill lightning, and my thought life resembles a thunderstorm over Kansas. This tiny electrical storm in the microscopic space of my nervous system quite naturally extends out to my thumbs to create tiny digital sparks of electricity inside my phone that beam out to the world by radio waves. This all means that my phone makes a place in time and space – outside of me – where I can project my relationships, my longings, and the full scope of my conscious existence.” - Tony Reinke,
S1E11: A Tale of Two Realities
S1E11: A Tale of Two Realities
S1E11: A Tale of Two Realities
(The following is the manuscript for episode eleven of season one of the Breaking the Digital Spell podcast, which premiered on October 30th, 2018. Available wherever you get your podcasts, or you can listen online here.) “Media ecologist Marshall McLuhan reminded his generation that technology is always an extension of the self. A fork is simply an extension of my hand. My car is an extension of my arms and feet, and no less so than Fred Flintstone’s foot mobile. Likewise, my smartphone extends my cognitive functions. The active neurons in my brain are a crackling tangle of skill lightning, and my thought life resembles a thunderstorm over Kansas. This tiny electrical storm in the microscopic space of my nervous system quite naturally extends out to my thumbs to create tiny digital sparks of electricity inside my phone that beam out to the world by radio waves. This all means that my phone makes a place in time and space – outside of me – where I can project my relationships, my longings, and the full scope of my conscious existence.” - Tony Reinke,