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was introduced. The IBM was introduced in 1981—
the IBM PC. The Apple, too was out at this time. The
experienced people I have had with
microcomputing, have allowed the ideas of
McLuhan to be lived by them, experienced by them.
Let me put it in another way: with the
microcomputer revolution people experienced the
ideas that McLuhan was talking about. They were
no longer theories. They are things they lived day-
by-day. They saw all of the speed with which
developments were taking place. They lived the
information revolution and they all of a sudden
began to realize that all these ideas meant
something. Or they discovered these ideas, but not