The history of our beloved word scramble puzzles is far the identical as that of phrase find puzzles and different sorts of word games. Initially they gained popularity by way of the widespread medium of the newspaper, then they moved on to their very own word scramble and word sport books and finally they moved on to the personal laptop and from there hopped onto the net because it too gained in popularity.

Neil Postman, who correctly created Media Ecology in so much of McLuhan’s picture, was the one most accountable for our deal with media, technology, process, and construction, rather than content. And this resulted in other structuralists, implicit and explicit, starting from Whorf to Levi-Strauss to Chomsky, being introduced into the curriculum. But McLuhan was the signpost. And he was a signpost that pointed, Janus-like, on the past and the long run on the same time.

We’re actually immersed within a technosociety and environment. Our time spent with the gadgets and the Internet splurging has disabled our cognitive skills. We are being decreased into an infantile stage of complete dependency on Expertise and its accoutrements. There’s now an infinite variety of methods and technique of communicating, and the … Read the rest