What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?

What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?

This idea reminds me often a classic novel 1984.

In the story of 1984 the party control all the people in the country. Big Brother is always looking at you! And why is that? It is because of the Television.

When the author is writing the novel, he imagines the TV is a media that will finally end up to become a machine that can control people’s mind. There are two ways that he thinks how this would work, by propaganda and surveillance. After years, today we look back we can tell that it didn't happen. Maybe is because the technology wasn’t that crazy or because the human wasn’t that corrupt. However, it is so interesting that the author George Orwell can imagine a world like that.

Today within the new media: the internet. We love it, addict, to it and can’t live without it. Just recently we just find out how the internet is surveillance us. Just like what George Orwell think! He predicts the worst future within the upcoming technology and media. I think that was really necessary for the human to actually think of it. By, enjoy the great media that internet brings us, we rarely think of how would it takes from us. It is critical to makes that thinking to see what is actually happening and what will be going next. I truly believe the thinking is the most important thing that people can change the world.