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“Love last sentence of Steve Lohr's excellent analysis of changing media landscape. - http://nyti.ms/a96qEH”

Marshall McLuhan spoke of hot media and cool media. Not a bad descriptive polarity. Composed mail and scripted speeches are conceptually cool. Reactive tweets are intensely hot as are unscheduled phone calls.

The continuous layered interruption of connected life leads to nothing accomplished.

The digital nature of the devices is invisible to the user and does not enter the argument.

Plenty to Watch Online, but Viewers Prefer to Pay for Cable

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Hot or active : The Web. Cool or passive : TV