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#AssertContext reminder

My learning of Canadian Marshall McLuhan and New Yorker Neil Postman and Eva Berger from Israel - all 3 in media studies / media ecology

I did not study this at university. I was in #SocialMedia at age 13 via Christmas 1982 - I was given unrestricted access to adult social media with #CBRadio #KBRV0896 I would talk to adults late night - often lonely truckers resting long-haul in #FortWayne where #NorthAmericanVanLines was based.

Christmas 1984 age 15 I started developing social media apps and selling them mail order on floppy disc. I was a #SysOp and creator of dozens of social media sites. All self-taught, my schools did not have Commodore 128 computers nor was anyone in my family into computers (my father worked for Pepsi, chemist).

From Fort Wayne Indiana I published academic books on IBM OS/2 where I was both author and technical editor. I never finished college, I got recruited to Philadelphia and then Dallas, then I worked my way to Seattle and was teaching employees of #Microsoft and was hire for the private staff of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. NBA basketball owner, NFL team purchase (I represented the owner in social media messaging takeover on purchase). Again, I have no university degree, my published books and experience got me jobs as a complete outsider.

I couldn't cope with the office pressure of such world-reaching job after 3 years and in late 1999 I left corporate office job forever and worked at home. Autism burnout at age 30 before I fully understand. I did not know about my #autism until a decade later.

I was learning about autism that I started re-reading Canadian Marshall McLuhan 1950's, 1960's, 1970's and applied it to my own first-hand childhood social media experiences and what was going on with the Apple iPhone in year 2008, 2009 in #Austin where I had settled. I then predicted the #ArabSpring2010 a year before it became famous and was in #Algeria #Africa December 2010 before it was world news. And over to live in Middle East (Jordan) to study outbreak of the #Syria war in 2011.

So I take McLuhan's teachings based on experience. I am not an academic ... I've spent since 1999 trying to make sense of hands-on experience with media systems from the 1990's Bellevue Washington billionaires (2 of the 3 richest people in the world when I was on private staff in 1998).

With Elon Musk purchasing Twitter and all that is going on today, McLuhan's 1960's and 1970's teachings have been extremely articulate.