A:  I went to college in 1967 and I graduated in 1971. 
And that period may have been the period where 
his influence was at its peak; it was certainly 
incredibly influential on my thinking about life in 
general. So I’ve carried the seeds of McLuhan, 
McLuhanism, McLuhan thinking throughout my 
entire adult life. Wired   is about media today, is 
about how we live in the media environment, how 
the media environment affects our lives. If there is 
a prophet of new media—in the sense of new 
beyond books—radio, television, networking, 
interactivity, it has to be that man. There is no 
other single individual that had such a clear vision 
of where we were going. And so to me it was