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Marshall McLuhan

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Dec 31, 1980
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
EdmontonCanada
About
Canadian academic, communication theory expert, and philosopher who wrote about mass media and predicted the World Wide Web thirty years before its inception. His important publications include The Mechanical Bride (1951), War and Peace in the Global Village (1968), and Understanding Media (1964).
Family
He was born in Alberta, Canada to Elsie Naomi Hall and Herbert Ernest McLuhan. He and his wife, Corinne, became parents to two sons (Eric and Michael) and four daughters (Mary, Teresa, Stephanie, and Elizabeth).

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