Thursday, March 8, 2012

Amazing McLuhan!

50 years ago, long before the invention of the personal computer, the Canadian academic and visionary Marshall McLuhan foresaw the importance of the computer and the possibilities of the internet. In The Gutenberg Galaxy, published in 1962, he says 

"A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual's encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind."
Amazing!

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