Media/ Interface

Mcluhan is saying Media observes human operation and affects them in every place where they are implicated in his article. Like he is saying, if a human artifact is not merely an implement for working upon something, but an extension of our body, affected by the artificial addition of organs, Media can called the human extended eye itself.
But, he emphasizes evolutionary standpoints of media. ‘The transformational effects of our artificial organ- they generate totally new condition of environmental service and or life- these are the concerns of Law of Media’ (p97, Law of Media).
This view would be valuable as the sense of reading both deadly and advantageous power of media generating unfathomable consequence.

In the Licklide’s article, concerning the separable function of men and computer for Man-Computer Symbioses, Licklider mentions ‘The information-processing equipment will convert hypotheses into models and test the model against data’ (p58, Man-Computer Symbioses). And, he assumes that digesting and converting data is the role of computer for successful symbioses. Letting computers facilitate formulative thinking and men’s infilling the gaps between particular circumstance and program, sounds great combination for ideal symbiotic cooperation.
Yet, I am curious that how a symbiotic cooperation with computer is actually possible in terms of time sharing.
If computer which is expected in Man-Computer Symbiosis is not just semi-automatic system and it is extended human arms and eye, it might perform like Media. With that sense, I am suspicious we can we easily ignore Laws of Media-interface, of the resonant interval as ‘where the action is’ in all structures, whether chemical, psychic, or social, involves touch (p102, Law of Media).