Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-t… - Marshall McLuhan

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Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.

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Herbert Marshall McLuhan (21 July 1911 – 31 December 1980) was a Canadian philosopher, futurist, and communications theorist.

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