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McLuhan’s career, his rise to fame, and your own
pop culture status.
A: I also consider McLuhan a great personal role
model for me because he was a professor, a very
learned man, who suddenly was caught in the
public spotlight, and then was seen everywhere.
Suddenly he was in this magazine and that
magazine. He was taken up by journalists. People
would call him up and ask him questions on all
kinds of topics from the simple to the abstruse
and so on. We haven’t had anyone like that—
before me—since McLuhan. It’s odd. One had
thought that McLuhan was the harbinger of a