Chris Anderson’s recent piece in Wired online inspired a completely unsurprising reaction among the technoscenti online, but also more references to work in Technology and Culture than we see in a typical week. Anderson’s piece, which more or less departs from the observation that the browser-based Web is accounting for less and less Internet traffic [...]

“Although McLuhan’s name is no longer a buzzword in the popular vernacular—or even in the communication classroom—we are living in an era when [his] predictions . . . are in evidence all around us. His variety of technological determinism is instructive.”