Will Newspaper Websites Change Us?

Marshall McLuhan “once predicted that the advent of colour television would lead to an increased appetite for spicy foods. Call him a nutcase, but we got our colour television and then suddenly we were all eating Szechuan. Who knows what will happen once the fission and fusion settles down and we’re used to this new hybrid medium of the newspaper website? Who knows what unexpected cultural side effects will hit us when we’re finally used to navigating them and dealing with nervous information on the computer screen?”