“There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”

— Marshall McLuhan

The Medium is the Message (1967), A chapter sub-heading attributed by McLuhan to Alfred North Whitehead

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

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