Name: Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Born: 1911
Died: 1980
Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Fave Subjects: Truth, Knowledge, Understanding, Storytelling, Technology
Career Highlights:
- did lots of work in advertising
- predicted the internet decades before it was invented
- studied how television affects the way people think
- once played himself in a movie
Big Question:
When we use a different kind of technology, does it make us think differently about things? Hmmmmmm…
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