McLuhan lives?

Well maybe not now. Perhaps ten years ago, though. Somehow I missed this news from ten years ago. I never knew that someone contacted Wired Magazine in 1996 making a seemingly credible claim (at least to some) to being Marshall McLuhan. Richard Cox mentioned the article in an article in a 2005 issue of the American Archivist. I highly doubt that it was McLuhan, but it very well could have been one of his colleagues. The article is pretty fascinating, and the "McLuhan" sure seems to have some rather MacLuhanesque ideas. I wish someone would do a follow-up piece to it. Much has changed since 1996.