An Electric Circuit

McLuhan claims that our society is very similar to an electric circuit and I believe that may be true now more than ever. So many people on this planet have the opportunity to connect with one another through the advances that have been made in communication. In the distant past, people would rely upon handwritten letters that could take weeks, sometimes months, to reach another person. Today, people don’t need to even write to talk with someone far away, they can talk in real-time through a screen. We can visit with family without ever leaving the house and we can make friends with people from other countries whom we’ve never physically met. There can even be teams of people from across the country, maybe even internationally, all working together on a project who couldn’t have before in years past.