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of what he said in 1964 didn’t become visible to
other people till the 1980s, because his notions and
his definitions of the media precede CD-ROM, the
personal computer, and MTV and the information
superhighway and so on. As well as the political
campaigns of people like Ronald Reagan and the
resuscitation of the corpse of Richard Nixon.
So all of these, both in terms of the influence of
the media in politics in terms of what the media
were capable of technologically is implicit in
McLuhan’s book. It wasn’t until I reread it, and
reread it very carefully, that I appreciated the
accuracy of his perception. So I then found myself