1967 Marshall McLuhan predicted social media and the problems it has brought about—and the solutions. "the global village is at once planet as wide as the planet and as small as a little town where everybody is maliciously engaged in poking his nose at everybody else's business"pic.twitter.com/Ev2Hkn7WRq
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Marshall McLuhan, 1967 on education: "In the 19th century the knowledge inside the schoolroom was higher than the knowledge outside—today it is reversed the child knows that in going to school he is in a sense interrupting his education" He was crazy—until he wasn’t.pic.twitter.com/DeZjwOGdp6
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Marshall McLuhan, 1967 on news. "a news report is a verbalized substitute for participation in an event with satellite broadcasting you just go to the place and participate directly in the sufferings or the events of that area floods this will tend to create a new kind of news"pic.twitter.com/lu8fCDvJHO
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Marshall McLuhan, 1967 on the review mirror. "What people see at any time what their attention is focused upon is always the rearview mirror never the present image or the present fact the future of the future is the present and this is something that people are terrified of"pic.twitter.com/kSmfBxnUOU
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Marshall McLuhan, 1967 on the Internet medium. "The medium does things to people and they're always completely unaware of this they don't really notice the new medium that is roughing them up—they think of the old medium because the old medium is the content of the new medium"pic.twitter.com/rG6jQGrnnx
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The genius MM features heavily in my last book on exactly that
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