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demonstrate the fertility of McLuhan’s insights for
researchers in this sense: he offered relevant
hypotheses, and conceptual tools for use in the
complex task of interpreting the shaping powers of
media environments. One need not agree with
McLuhan in order to be inspired by him.
The most radical challenge to conventional thinking
posed by McLuhan’s work arose from application
to the present of the sweeping conclusion he drew
from his diagnosis of historical patterns of
mediamorphosis.
“[W]e have confused reason with literacy, and