<p>Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980 on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium.<br>Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written and why the <em>Wired</em> generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age.</p>