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A: O.K., you asked me before, what was his major
contribution? To me, his major contribution was to
explain to people that media have an impact on
them, independent of the information they carry.
This was his major contribution: “The medium is
the message.” He said it very succinctly, he was
warning people that there was a whole new way of
processing information, a whole new outlook on
life, on thinking, on scholarship, on education, on
work. And people were completely unaware of
these changes. The man was a genius.
Now, of course it is a cliché to say he was a genius.
I used to say he was a genius before—I loved him,