“The culture-heroes of preliteracy and postliteracy alike are robots.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 79

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Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor … 1911–1980

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