麥剋盧漢（Marshall McLuhan），20世紀媒體理論宗師，齣生於加拿大，於劍橋大學取得博士學位，擔任多倫多大學英語教授，1980年病逝於多倫多。他在上世紀60年代創造的“地球村”“媒體即信息”等概念，已成為世界人人熟悉的名言，並被稱為“媒體先知”。“紐約時報論壇”贊譽麥剋盧漢為“自牛頓、達爾文、弗洛伊德、愛因斯坦和巴甫洛夫以來最重要的思想傢”。另著有《機器新娘》《認識媒體》等。

The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before. Readers will be amazed by McLuhan's prescience, unmatched by anyone since, predicting as he did the dramatic technological innovations that have fundamentally changed how we communicate. The Gutenberg Galaxy foresaw the networked, compressed 'global village' that would emerge in the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries - despite having been written when black-and-white television was ubiquitous. This new edition of The Gutenberg Galaxy celebrates both the centennial of McLuhan's birth and the fifty-year anniversary of the book's publication. A new interior design updates The Gutenberg Galaxy for twenty-first-century readers, while honouring the innovative, avant-garde spirit of the original. This edition also includes new introductory essays that illuminate McLuhan's lasting effect on a variety of scholarly fields and popular culture. A must-read for those who inhabit today's global village, The Gutenberg Galaxy is an indispensable road map for our evolving communication landscape.