PZ: Was the
DEW Line card deck co-designed by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, or did McLuhan do it all by himself?
These sites of the outer
DEW Line would form a continuous line along which any aircraft flying at any feasible altitude above the terrain would be in the unimpeded line of sight of at least one station (Ray n.d., 8).
As a result of new technology, 21 of the 42
DEW Line sites were closed in the early 1960s and became the responsibility of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
Further examples of metamedia include the
DEW Line deck of cards co-designed by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, and Oblique Strategies--a deck of cards co-designed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.
The work gives no references for direct quotations and no attributions for ideas that are clearly lifted from other works: sections on the
DEW line, for instance (p.
The airline pioneered delivery of outsized cargo, such as generators and vehicles, to remote
DEW line sites, mines and settlements; delivery of freight to rural communities on a charter basis; and assistance with many special and emergency situations, including the Good Friday Earthquake in 1964.
In the case of the
DEW Line clean up, he said, requirements included consultation with numerous community members and environmental groups.
Almost 60 years ago, the threat had changed; it was no longer Japan, but the Soviet Union that posed a real danger, and the need to defend North America, in the Arctic, saw the creation of the
DEW Line system.
THE
DEW LINE YEARS: VOICES FROM THE COLDEST COLD WAR.By FRANCES JEWEL DICKSON Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield Press, 2007.