MarshallMcLuhan, the Canadianmediascholar had proposed the "rearview mirror" theory: Despite the advancing of the car, the rearview mirroralwaysreflects the passing objects.
Already in 1962, the prophetic scholar of media Marshall McLuhan foresaw the coming of a "global village": a planet in which information spread as fast as in the farming village of yore.
Boris Federov, an investor and a former minister of finance, criticized the company's leadership, which reacted so fiercely he began to fear for his life, according to an account by Marshall Goldman, an economist and Russia scholar at Harvard.