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The Medium is the Massage: Marshall McLuhan and his legacy

This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Marshall McLuhan's birth. The media visionary was ahead of his time and to commemorate the centennial many current visionaries have taken a look at his legacy:

Brain Pickings introduces us to Marshall McLuhan Speaks, a comprehensive website full of McLuhan content, and shares video of Tom Wolfe discussing McLuhan.

Open Culture brings us Norman Mailer & Marshall McLuhan debating "the electronic age" & Marshall McLuhan "The World is a Global Village." 

The Guardian's newly launched podcast The Big Ideas explores the communication theorist most famous line and the typo that inspired the title of this post. 

The Globe and Mail proclaim The return of Marshall McLuhan.

Nieman Journalism Labs takes a look at McLuhan in his time and ours

And lastly, fellow Canadian and idiosyncratic writer Douglas Coupland looks at the life of McLuhan like only he can convey in the fantastic quasi-biography Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work.