“Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)

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

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