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Episode 102: Venkatesh Rao

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How the Telescope Affects Our Consciousness

If the telescope wern't a physical artifact, but just the natural extension of the eye, and biologically we were capable of zooming in and out to look at th moon's crateris right? Nice. We would actually think very differentlyan one way to make this understanding really viceral is by attaching microscopes and telescopes to our eyes. And now just take that argument and attach it to the marshal mc luan medium as a message idea, or hanaran’s instrumentality. What happens if it turns out that we can attach microscopes and Telescopes to our eyes?

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