> I have a reply to your McLuhan comment, but I've been too busy/lazy to have typed it out yet.
Haha, that's beautiful. Better get it out of your head before the idea half-life expires. ;)
Allow to me say pre-emptively that the Myers-Brigg abstraction is relevant to the medium/message issue. People inclined towards [P]erception can are more likely to suss out the author's intent regardless of how it is transmitted; people who lean [S]ensory are more likely to influenced by the subjective experience of the idea's packaging.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bt-lv6IJPxc (animation of a hypothetical, nanotech-based, dermal display)
P.S. I have a reply to your McLuhan comment, but I've been too busy/lazy to have typed it out yet.