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We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

—Marshall McLuhan, visionary Canadian educator who examined the media’s significance as a global gateway.

We’re experiencing what Alvin Toffler might call “an exclamation point in history,”¹ an era in which old barriers fall and there is vast reorganization of the production and distribution of knowledge and the symbols used to communicate it.² Toffler wrote about GenCorp Automotive in Indiana, which opened a $65 million plant in the early 1990s with about 500 workers. Every worker, not only supervisors and managers, received $8,000-$10,000 worth of training—not just in ...