Eric McLuhan , son of Marshall (Understanding Media) McLuhan, in an e-mail
correspondence
with me in 2004."Electronic technologies of all kinds make obsolete all of our bureaucratic institutions... No more is knowledge or information contained in books and buildings: we live every moment in an environment of global information and are ourselves translated into information. Like knowledge, learning too is now decentralized in space and in time... To remain relevant, institutions of learning might now issue diplomas or degrees to registrants on entering and requiring that they stay for four years to engage in conversation and dialogue and research. Training ought to move away from courses and subjects and turn instead to training of skills and of perception and sensibility, the sort needed by investigators and explorers."
Does the above quote make sense? Why? How? In what ways are you living in a world that is "decentralized in space and in time"?
