Wearing a book

Evolution of Media

Wearing a book

Woodi: What drove our quest to develop media?
Marshall: Kings commissioned effigies, churches told stories, and now it’s business diverting us with entertainment and games. Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Woodi: Where will it end?

Marshall: In the future. Art is anything you can get away with now. Maybe we will be wearing books soon. Think about it.

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Voice-over

Can’t but help notice we went from pictures through text and now we’re headed back to pictures. Or as McLuhan said it, “Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.” Perhaps my next book purchase will be a T-shirt.

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