From a fake interview with McLuhan: "The attention of consumers can shift instantly and make the most profound investments obsolete in just a few years, soon t

From a fake interview with McLuhan: "The attention of consumers can shift instantly and make the most profound investments obsolete in just a few years, soon to be sped up even further. We will see economic empires crash within hours, and new ones arise just as quickly. The task of the economic manager now is to try to hold monopolies in place just long enough for economic transactions to occur." I first read this while still in high school and it left a huge impression on me. (Big enough that I still remembered it just now, over 15 years later... wtf?!) --> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/channeling_pr.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/channeling_pr.html