(Toronto Star) A century after his birth, Marshall McLuhan is ”˜still ahead of us’

If Marshall McLuhan were alive today, there isn’t much that would surprise him ”” not the Internet, or Google, or Twitter, or WikiLeaks, or even the phone-hacking scandal now transfixing much of the U.K.

In broad outline, if not in precise detail, he predicted all of these and more.

“Rereading him, I still get new insights,” says Robert Logan, a former colleague of the Canadian media guru some now call The First Seer of Cyberspace. “The man was a total genius. If he came back today, on his 100th anniversary, he would say, ”˜Yeah, that’s about what I expected ”” and people haven’t learned a thing.”

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