Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function We may come to remember this decade as the one when human beings finally realized we are up against something. We’re just not quite sure what it is. More of us have come to understand that our
I first met Marshall McLuhan in 1974 at the Coach House on the campus of St. Michael’s College, the University of Toronto. I was a professor of physics carrying out research in theoretical elementary particle physics, lecturing undergrad and grad courses and supervising grad students. In addition to these straight forward duties of a physics
The May 2014 issue of the Torontoist, a magazine dedicated in its own words to capturing “the tenor and texture of life in Toronto,” published a story by Kevin Plummer about the origin of the Explorations journal in 1953 and its impact on Toronto life, at least Toronto academic life. The story was entitled Historicist: Explorations at
