214:. While i can agree that this concept may be notable, no significant editing happened since then. The article still doesn't have anything that remotely resembles reliable sources. If it is a significant scientific or cultural concept, it should be either improved or deleted. Otherwise people who don't pay attention to "unreferenced" tags can actually believe what it says now. And maybe it is even true (although i doubt it), but there's no way to verify it.
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Marshall McLuhan, (or a google search for "post literate" mcluhan gutenberg galaxy) seems to show he was an early user, probably coined the phrase. i think the word society is not needed, but the word, if coined by mcluhan, is an important one, and probably deserves a larger article. i would
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412:. Concerns about technology creating a generation that doesn't read have been an ongoing concern. It used to be television, now it's the internet, and I'm sure that in another ten years, it'll be voice-activated information retrieval.
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