“There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew” Marshall McLuhan
Biography Marshall McLuhan
CATEGORY: Environmental Quotes
WHO: HerbertMarshall McLuhan
BORN: 21.July 1911 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
DEATH: 31 December 1980
WHERE: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
NATIONALITY: Canadian
PROFESSION: Canadian philosopher of communication theory
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS
Marshall McLuhan is known for coining the expressions the medium is the message and the global village, and for predicting the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented.
He published several books and among them; The Mechanical Bride (1951), War and Peace in the Global Village (1968), The Medium is the Message: An Inventory of Effects (1967, From Cliché to Archetype (1970), The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century (1989)
