The invention of the telegraph in the 1850’s begins what Marshall McLuhan defines as the Electronic Age. The world has been steadily absorbed and defined by the various forms of electronic media that have been invented since then. Over the past forty years, video games have become a dominant influence on our society. They have become a major social influence that not only affects our perception but has also come to redefine our culture. Video games have even gone so far as to create their own unique subculture unlike anything we have known before.
To get an idea of how electronic media such as video games can have an impact on our society one must be familiar with the Theory of Technological Determinism by Marshall McLuhan. The basic prem
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