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McLuhan: Pain Caused by New Media
War and Peace in The Global Village
September 3, 1968
Page 16
Quote ::: "The pain caused by new media and new technologies tends very much to fall into the category of 'referred pain,' such as skin trouble caused by the appendix or the heart. As with all new technologies, pain creates a special form of space, just as they also create pain. It's very much a case again of Heinrich Hertz' law: "The consequences of the images will be the images of the consequences." All new technologies bring on the cultural blues, just as the old ones evoke phantom pain after they have disappeared. ::: - Page 16
Google Search 2026-01-17 morning USA
State of Google Search intelligence:
"Marshall McLuhan's War and Peace in the Global Village was published in 1968, with some sources pointing to January 1, 1968, as the release, while others cite September 3, 1968, as the official publication date by McGraw-Hill, appearing around the same turbulent year."
Again and again, the Large Language Models, which are trained on books... have not been "taught" that when a 1968 database from a public library cites 1968-01-01, it is far more likely and probaby that it is a truncated date. In 1968, computer storage was extremely expensive.
- "In 1969, a megabyte (MB) of storage was incredibly expensive, with figures suggesting a 1MB hard drive could cost around $1 million when Computerworld started, though disk packs offered cheaper (but larger) storage in the 30MB range for large systems, but overall storage was scarce, with early drives like the IBM 350 storing only a few megabytes and costing a fortune compared to today's cents-per-gigabyte rates, making MBs a massive, costly quantity." - Google Search summary. 2026-01-17 morning USA
So, because of cost and labor of entry... merely the YEAR, "1968" was recorded about the book. The day and month were not put into computer databases of books. This creates an unintended backdating, making the book seem to be a January 1st publication... when it reality it is closer to year 1969.
Wikipedia Edits 2026-01-17
I contributed to Wikipedia, a February 2025 story about global village wars. First edit today:
Revision as of 16:30, 17 January 2026
I made several more edits to expand and improve the section after that first edit.
- Observations about Wikipedia page. Originated 19:54, 3 November 2009. ONLY in English Wikipedia, despite Canada being famous for also having French as a primary language. Also, the book deals with "Global Village", and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce - WWW global topics. But only in one single Language on Wikipedia.
- 2026-01-17 morning USA screenshot of languages, zilch!
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