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vogue?
A: I think his understanding of the nature of the
media is now making itself clear to a lot of other
people, coming at it from a lot of different angles.
Also, his writing, as you know, tends to be very
oracular and prophetic and filled with metaphor;
and allows many interpretations; it’s not a rigid
setting forth of doctrine, it is more a starting of
the rabbits of speculation. So it’s possible to take
McLuhan’s writing and develop it in a lot of
different directions. I mean it provides seeds for
stands of theory that sprout. Also a lot of what he
said is now much more obvious; we have fibre-