He Was Laughed Out of Academia for This Take About Technology. Turns Out He Was Right.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The most accurate description of being online that was ever articulated comes to us from a Canadian professor. The light and the message go right through us," he said during a television appearance. "At this moment, we are on the air, and on the air we do not have any physical body. When you're on the telephone or on radio or on TV, you don't have a physical body.