{"id":28,"date":"2006-09-20T21:18:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T02:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=28"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:37:40","slug":"the-book-of-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1584232528\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1584232528&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=readingwith0a-20&#038;linkId=55d45b7b2fe19e447b1c60fb8affa3cd\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/515oWQ02QpL._SL1400_-150x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"142\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/515oWQ02QpL._SL1400_-150x142.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/515oWQ02QpL._SL1400_-1024x968.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/515oWQ02QpL._SL1400_-768x726.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/515oWQ02QpL._SL1400_.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>Marshall McLuhan (2003)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Until now, no book has explored the full expanse of Marshall McLuhan&#8217;s thinking. Here we have assembled alongside his most prescient aphorisms excerpts from the full range of his astounding life&#8217;s work. One revolutionary book distills the wisdom and wit of the man who explained to us the &#8220;the medium is the message&#8221; and that we are &#8220;now living in a global village&#8221;, that &#8220;privacy invasion is now our most important knowledge industry&#8221; and that &#8220;obsolescence is the moment of superabundance&#8221;. Art director and designer David Carson presents McLuhan&#8217;s images with new insight, and has built a work of art that is reminiscent of those lasting works permanently commissioned and interpreted by new generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall McLuhan (2003) Until now, no book has explored the full expanse of Marshall McLuhan&#8217;s thinking. Here we have assembled alongside his most prescient aphorisms excerpts from the full range of his astounding life&#8217;s work. One revolutionary book distills the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=28\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,11,5,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-design","category-media","category-philosophy","category-technology","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}