Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information MillenniumMarshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. |
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THE RELUCTANT EXPLICATOR | |
came into our lives Authors often speak of first readerspeople to whom they | |
NET CONTENT | |
THE SONG OF THE ALPHABET IN CYBERSPACE | |
ONLINE ANGELS | |
FROM VOYEUR TO PARTICIPANT | |
THE FATE OF THE CENTER | |
WAY COOL TEXT | |
THE RUSTED GATEKEEPER | |
Surfboarding electronic waves | |
BEAUTY MACHINES | |
We have no art we do everythingwell | |
Rearview mirror | |
SPIRALS OF MEDIA EVOLUTION | |
Bibliography | |
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