Who is Marshall McLuhan?
- He was born in Edmonton, Alabama on July 21st 1911.
- He died on December 31st 1980 in Toronto, Canada.
- He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge
- McLuhan was a Canadian Philosopher.
- He predicted the World Wide Web 30 years before it was released.
- He also came up with the well known expression, “The Medium is the Message”.
The Medium is the Message
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
- Marshall McLuhan released a book called “The Medium is the Message”, however, after a typing error, the book was published with the name “The Medium is the Massage.
- However, McLuhan liked the name of the book as it could be determined as “The Medium is the Mass Age”, indicating that the new mass age is an indicator of how we absorb our media.