Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation. (Marshall McLuhan)

Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation.

Marshall McLuhan

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