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Marshall McLuhan Interview from Playboy, 1969

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Marshall McLuhan Intervew from Playboy, 1969 The following is the The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan, Playboy Magazine, March 1969, c 1994. It has been modestly redacted and slightly edited (by me, Phillip Rogaway) for use in UC Davis’ ECS 188, “Ethics in an Age of Technology.” In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto–and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small- circulation quarterlies. But then came two remarkable books—“The Gutenberg Galaxy” (1962) and “Understanding Media”…

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