“The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators.”

— Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 205

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

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