The medium is the message. Yes, this is true in that the medium itself is the impact – regardless of its content.
The Internet – as mother of all media – evolves and coalesces new media and inter-relationships among media.
Regardless of the content, the connections, the people, and the machines which it subsumes, the Internet exerts its own selective pressures on the world and itself.
Unlike a medium, which is its own message, the Internet is its own force – and it is a force that is more powerful than any message.
The Internet is the force. Be careful.
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