“The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

"A Last Look at the Tube." New York Magazine, 17 March 1978, p. 45-48
1970s

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