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Marshall foresees Zoom

More than 60 years ago, in a January 5, 1960 letter to Harold Hill, NAEB Associate Director, McLuhan saw the coming of Zoom:

I managed to spend most of the Christmas vacation travelling. I don’t see how Harry Skornia manages to endure that life. He deserves to have a TV circuit which would enable him to do his interviewing from an easy chair.

This entry was posted in NAEB, Predicting the present, Skornia, State of the world on July 10, 2020 by McEwen.

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