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It's 55 years since Marshall McLuhan's book Understanding Media suggested the media were "extensions of man." McLuhan's ideas about media, globalization, and cultural upheaval made him a star and a prophet in the 1960s, even if many were barely able to grasp their meaning. We try, in this Fishko Files. (Produced in 2011)
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It's 55 years since Marshall McLuhan's book Understanding Media suggested the media were "extensions of man." McLuhan's ideas about media, globalization, and cultural upheaval made him a star and a prophet in the 1960s, even if many were barely able to grasp their meaning. We try, in this Fishko Files. (Produced in 2011)

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