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- Birth nameHerbert Marshall McLuhan
- Marshall McLuhan was born on July 21, 1911 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Annie Hall (1977), Intercut (1980) and The Third Walker (1978). He was married to Corinne Lewis. He died on December 31, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- SpouseCorinne Lewis(August 4, 1939 - December 31, 1980) (his death, 6 children)
- His well-known quote: "The medium is the message."
- He was a Canadian scholar famous for his breakthrough ideas about communications and the media typified by his famous phrase, "The media is the message."
- Coined the term 'Global Village'
- He was awarded the C.C. (Companion of the Order of Canada) on June 26, 1970 for his contribution to the understanding of the relationships between media and society in Canada.
- Money is a poor man's credit card.
- You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvelous resources.
- There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
- [Charlie Chaplin as a metaphor] He found himself isolated and he became the lonely little tramp. His gripe against America was that it was so American. He never took his camera inside an American home, not once. Because when Americans go home they change from one hemisphere to another. They cease to be extroverts: they become introvert and ordinary. But the moment they step outside their homes they go out to fight, fight, fight.
- [on employment in the future] People tend to acquire multiple jobs. And with the computer at home, the cottage economy returns via the computer terminal at home. The idea of going out to work becomes obsolete. And therefore the car will tend to be used only as an entertainment medium.
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