was introduced. The IBM was introduced in 1981—
the IBM PC. The Apple, too was out at this time. The 
experienced people I have had with 
microcomputing, have allowed the ideas of 
McLuhan to be lived by them, experienced by them. 
Let me put it in another way: with the 
microcomputer revolution people experienced the 
ideas that McLuhan was talking about. They were 
no longer theories. They are things they lived day-
by-day. They saw all of the speed with which 
developments were taking place. They lived the 
information revolution and they all of a sudden 
began to realize that all these ideas meant 
something. Or they discovered these ideas, but not