“Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.”

—  Marshall McLuhan, book The Gutenberg Galaxy

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 280

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

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