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The Cloud and the Countryside

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The Cloud and the Countryside

Drew Austin
Aug 20, 2020
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The Cloud and the Countryside

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Back in 1967, Marshall McLuhan declared that “the city no longer exists except as a cultural ghost for tourists.” Although the internet didn’t yet exist at the time, other technologies were already absorbing the world into what McLuhan famously called the global village, and he could sense that cities’ historical sources of importance were fading. Citie…

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