Summary: This past year, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed to the world how our lives online are now available to any agency with the technology and the temptation to tap into them. This revelation has come decades after one thinker theorised about the way that technology would penetrate our daily existence in ways that few could have predicted. You may have never heard of Marshall McLuhan, but you have probably heard his most widely quoted dictum: "The medium is the message."
