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McLuhan's preeminent theory was his idea that human history could be [blank] into four eras: the acoustic age, the literary age, the print age, and the electronic age. He [blank] the concept in a 1962 book called The Gutenberg Galaxy, which was released just as the television was starting to become popular. He [blank] the world was entering the fourth, electronic age, which would be characterized by a community of people brought together by technology. He called it the "global village", and said it would be an age when everyone had [blank] to the same information through technology. The "global village" could be understood to be the internet.

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McLuhan's preeminent theory was his idea that human history could be divided into four eras: the acoustic age, the literary age, the print age, and the electronic age. He outlined the concept in a 1962 book called The Gutenberg Galaxy, which was released just as the television was starting to become popular. He predicted the world was entering the fourth, electronic age, which would be characterized by a community of people brought together by technology. He called it the "global village", and said it would be an age when everyone had access to the same information through technology. The "global village" could be understood to be the internet.
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