Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05607_Field_OMRO T5.txt

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reacted to what’s going on now, which in many
ways is the extension of the insights he had about
television. In fact, his comments about television
were almost before the reality. He saw television,
but I don’t think what he saw was accurate; what
he actually saw was what came beyond television,
what’s happening now in many ways. He was
ahead of himself in a very concrete way. He was
looking beyond television to this new media
environment in which we are living in now.


Q:  When you started Wired , what made you decide
to make McLuhan your “patron saint?”