Questions for "Digital McLuhan"

1. The acoustic world is how we see the world using our senses and it has no boundaries. The alphabetical visual world had more to it then just print it meant something to the people. The media of television became part of the acoustic world because you see the same screen and images as people do all over the country at any given time.  

2. The alphabet has segregating tendencies because when it first started it could only be seen by one set of eyes at a time and it was difficult to make copies for other people. The printing press reversed this because it was able to make to make copies of texts to more then just one person and so there was more available.

3. The alphabet communicates by finding acoustic space it creates online. The online acoustic world is different from the television, radio or print acoustic world because it’s interactive. You can have online conversations with people online, over the radio and through television they have games that people watch and involve themselves in to interactive with the TV.

4.The two selection criteria are we want media to extend our abilities of communication beyond certain points of just the seeing of the eye of a screen of hearing of media from a tv or radio. We also want media to gather information that may have been lost. In the next 20 years our online communication will continue to replace each other with new and better technologies.