“The field of 'information theory' began by using the old hardware paradigm of transportation of data from point to point.”

— Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 111

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

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