“The reduction of the tactile qualities of life and language constitute the refinement sought in the Renaissance and repudiated now in the electronic age.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 272

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

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