McLuhan collaborator on the mid-1960s Global Thermostat Project — McLuhan's plan to use computers to measure the sensory thresholds of whole populations and "organize the spaces of the global village." Bob places Capon in the collaboration sequence around 1964–65, behind the big expo design proposal. (His name appears as "Capone" in dialogue 01.)
Across the dialogues
The Global Thermostat plan — computers to measure a population's sensory thresholds
The Global Thermostat plan Capon was tasked to execute: computers measuring a population's sensory thresholds to "organize the spaces of the global village."
"His big plan in the mid-60s was to use the computer to measure the sensory thresholds of populations. He said, let's find a city — we need to get a city to organize these spaces of the global village."
Capon's place in the collaboration sequence — the 1964–65 expo design proposal
Capon sits in McLuhan's collaboration sequence around 1964–65, attached to the Global Thermostat Project and its expo design proposal.
"And then maybe Daniel Capon, '64, '65, with the Global Thermostat Project, that big image in the May '64 newspaper."
Connections
Executed McLuhan's mid-1960s Global Thermostat Project — the computer plan to measure populations' sensory thresholds.