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Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan

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As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself. – Marshall McLuhan

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