Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1990s and beyond, A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995), p. 276
“We live invested in an electric information environment that is quite as imperceptible to us as water is to fish.”
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 5
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