understand something of the revival.

I want to go back to the scholarly thing just for a 
minute because the other thing that happened was 
there is no way in which one can simply sit down, 
take McLuhan’s works and answer that famous 
question of Tom Wolfe: “Was he right? What if he 
is right?” No you can’t quite do it that way. My 
take is this: I think that McLuhan’s value lies in the 
scope of his vision. His value doesn’t lie in the 
precision of every particular thing he said. What he 
gives us is a way of looking at these changes, and 
making sense of them, both in terms of the large-
scale historical picture in which we find ourselves