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Marshall McLuhan

Media theorist · 1911-1980

Marshall McLuhan
Josephine Smith · Public domain

Said the medium is the message and described the global village thirty years before the web.

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Life story

  1. July 21, 1911 · Edmonton
    Born in Edmonton
  2. 1946 · Toronto
    Joined the University of Toronto, where he taught for the rest of his life
  3. 1962 · Toronto
    Published The Gutenberg Galaxy and coined the global village
  4. 1964 · Toronto
    Published Understanding Media: the medium is the message
  5. 1977 · New York
    Played himself in Annie Hall, correcting a man in a cinema queue
  6. December 31, 1980 · Toronto
    Died in Toronto

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