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theories fell out of favor. He somehow, at least in
the popular sense, got lost. Why do you think this
happened?
A: I don’t think his ideas ever fell out of favor
among the scholars, OK. But you see McLuhan was
a big pop phenomena, and as all pop things, they
have their moment and then they fall off or decay
exponentially. So he was just going through
natural decay of superficial admirers of his work.
What was happening though, was that a revolution
was taking place. The microcomputer was
introduced during the time of his death. He died
December 31st 1980, just when the microcomputer