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McLuhan was born on July 21, 1911, in Edmonton, Alberta, and was named "Marshall" from his maternal grandmother's surname.His brother, Maurice, was born two years later. His parents were both also born in Canada: his mother, Elsie Naomi (née Hall), was a Baptist school teacher who later became an actress; and his father, Herbert Ernest McLuhan, was a Methodist with a real-estate business in ...
It is about "human connectedness, happiness, and the human spirit", [4] and explores themes including Darwinism, Western mores, loneliness, the economy, and the drive to war. The documentary includes animated scenes explaining scientific concepts, [ 9 ] as well as clips from the films Wall Street and It's a Wonderful Life .
The key thesis of the book: "However many characters may appear in a story, its real concern is with just one: its hero. It is the one whose fate we identify with, as we see them gradually developing towards that state of self-realization which marks the end of the story.
Humans Need Not Apply is a 2014 internet video directed, produced, written, and edited by CGP Grey. It focuses on the future of the integration of automation into economics, as well as the impact of this integration to the worldwide workforce. It was released online on YouTube on 13 August 2014. [1] It was later made available via iTunes and ...
Divorced writer Reed Rodney, who has recently had his jaw wired shut to recover from an accident, is visited by his estranged daughter Em. Reed is struggling working on a new book. Em argues with her father revealing he had numerous affairs and violently assaulted her mother, leading to the divorce. One night Em's boyfriend Peyton sneaks in the ...
Intersubjectivity is a term coined by social scientists beginning around 1970 [citation needed] to refer to a variety of types of human interaction. The term was introduced to psychoanalysis by George E. Atwood and Robert Stolorow, who consider it a "meta-theory" of psychoanalysis. [1]
A newly sapient Pioneer 9 is one of the main characters of 17776.. The story takes place on a future Earth where humans stopped dying, aging, and being born in 2026. All social ills were subsequently eliminated, and technology preventing humans from any injury was developed.
World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 West German science fiction television serial, starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Shot in 16 mm, it was made for West German television and originally aired in 1973 in ARD as a two-part miniseries.