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Marshall McLuhan

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[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place."
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Brand, Stewart. "McLuhan's last words". New Scientist, 29 Jan 1981.

 
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