ecards have a great way of explaining things

These two ecards represented to me a piece of Marshall McLuhans theory about media. He states environment is always changing. The media content, and the media itself. These two pictures are at opposite sides of the spectrum but still give the same underlining theme about technology according to McLuhan. The picture on the top represents the past, while the picture on the bottom represents the future. Changes in technology have been so rapid that guessing what will be next is easy. The pattern recognition is possible just like McLuhan believes. I thought the top ecard was especially funny because as a kid I remember playing with Etch-a-Sketch and they do have the same looking format as the iPad. This reminded me of the "rearview-mirror view" where McLuhan stated, in his interview with Playboy, we are only aware of what was before because we are always one step behind in our view of the world. If next year we did have teleportation and the time machine, we wouldn't have to worry about transportation, gas, time. That would be nice. We could travel back in time and see people we don't see anymore, or go to a specific time where we wish we could experience something again. We could see our love ones that past away. I hope I'm alive for this technology. That would be nice to experience. Doubt it would happen, seems crazy, but who knows now a days.