The Strengths and Weaknesses of McLuhan’s Ideas

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Could you imagine yourself in a different lifetime dating back to several hundred years ago, where communication looked exclusively like face-to-face conversations only? Life back then must have been one major game of telephone, where stories were passed on solely through word-of-mouth, and up-to-date information was simply a non-existing thing of the future. Today, we of course communicate via actual…