The message is medium

The medium is the massage
Marshall McLuhan (1967)

McLuhan is way ahead of his time when he speaks about the electric information environment and the impact that it has on mankind in the way we live, communicate and become extensions of ourselves, psychic or physical. When he speaks about time has ceased, space has vanished and we now live in a global village he is truly looking into the future, (read our present time). Getting in to the subject education, he predicts we more and more are moving away from instructions to our own discovery of facts and interests - he is spot on of the devlopment.

McLuhan makes an interesting observation that a common failure is the attempt to do a job demanded by the new environment with the tools of the old. Kamil points out, in his reading of the same book, that we become slaves under the new medias we create. This fear of becoming powerless under the new media is maybe why we so often hang on to the safe and familiar, which can take it's expression in using the tools of the old in the new "unsafe" environment. This will often create problems since the old tools hasn't been updated to the new environment and become unfitting. The tools are extensions of our bodies and minds and we grow fond of them, which makes it so hard getting rid of them. Getting tools updated to fit the new environment will make the adaptation smoother and our tools stronger and more accurate.