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he was my friend and he stimulated me. He gave me
joy and he gave me insights so I called him a
genius. But you know, a couple of weeks ago, I
read, re-read the last paragraph of Understanding
Media . I was just completing my book called
Learning A Living and I was concerned with what
the impact of information technology on work and
education, and what the new relationship between
work and education was going to be. So I looked
through McLuhan. I scoured him, to find what he
wrote on automation. The last chapter of
Understanding Media —I read in fourteen pages, all
of the “brand new” ideas that I read in the last five
years, by authors such as Toffler, Drucker,