Pasulka: "Where [Arthur C.] Clark tells the story of a species-wide metamorphosis catalyzed by alien intelligence, [Marshall] McLuhan charts the slow, imperceptible rewiring of human beings by the very tools we invent. Together, Clark and McLuhan sketch the outlines of a new kind of being emerging from an environment that McLuhan called supraterrestrial." In either case, seems that humanity naturally (via tech) will eventually become something that we current humans would perceive as "alien,"...