The Industrial Revolution was an era that began in Britain around 1850s, where production shifted from hand tools to complex machines that were powered by water and steam. The era provides clues about how societies transform with technological advancement, which has brought to reality some of the fictional marvels that were once restricted to comic books. Interestingly, we are living the reality of some of those marvels in this era. Also, some of McLuhan's theoretical projection of the 1960s

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... ut technology shrinking the world into a global village have come true. These realities provided the foundation for this study about some of the technology-driven medical innovations.