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 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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Jared, wow. To just be mentioned with the names of my heroes is humbling
@asymco and@benedictevans are astounding intellects. Marshall McLuhan has had a significant impact from the moment I had the honor to meet him to this moment. We are living in amazing times these are giants - 2 more replies
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Such a careful thinking. Prophet.
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