The Technology Prophet: Mind-blowing Insight and Media Theories with Marshall McLuhan
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The History of Literacy
McLuhan was an extraordinarily demanding intellectual. He doesn't cut you much slack. So let me read you a section from the Gutenberg galaxy that it is both interesting to think about or if you can't understand it, then an interesting example of what Mclewinn's style was like. This is a short section called only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. From the 5th century BC to the 15th century AD, the book was a scribal product.
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