Thursday, February 14, 2008

How to Evaluate a Technology Via Marshall Mcluhan's Four Laws

How does one evaluate a new technology? Many technical rubrics have been proposed, but for a quick theoretic and philosophic approach, use Marshall McLuhan's "four laws of media".

Steps:
1)Determine what the technology enhances.
2)Find out what, if anything, the technology makes obsolete.
3)Figure out what the technology retrieves.
4)Determine what the technology reverts into when pushed to the limit.

3 comments:

Savannah Theresa said...

yee i'm gonna have fun with this one
didn't even start it yet :|

JennaN said...

I'm done this one to.

nikki said...

-looks up- haha...

Well it took a while but I finally figured out these four laws. basheesh...