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Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan
Canadian writer Marshall McLuhan is known for his visionary interpretation of the effects of technological communication on society. He wrote The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects in 1967. Ahead of his time, he predicted electronically connected media would eventually produce a huge “global village.”
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