Marshall McLuhan Concepts about Media
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Even though he held such strong feelings about the discovery of the alphabet, he was much more positive about the Electronic Age that saw the widespread use, in residential homes, of films, radios, the telephone, the television, and the computer.... The Electronic Age, McLuhan felt, reinstated humankind's lost balance of the senses.... This process, according to McLuhan, could be viewed as being the unintended cause of all the principal cultural shifts that have typified eras of human history like the industrial age or the renaissance....