From Mr. McLuhan's famous Playboy interview

From our series "What makes you so ferocious when you reread Marshal McLuhan"

The transformations are taking place everywhere around us. As the old value systems crumble, so do all the institutional clothing and garb-age they fashioned. The cities, corporate extensions of our physical organs, are withering and being translated along with all other such extensions into information systems, as television and the jet--by compressing time and space--make all the world one village and destroy the old city-country dichotomy. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles--all will disappear like the dinosaur. The automobile, too, will soon be as obsolete as the cities it is currently strangling, replaced by new antigravitational technology. The marketing systems and the stock market as we know them today will soon be dead as the dodo, and automation will end the traditional concept of the job, replacing it with a role, and giving men the breath of leisure. The electric media will create a world of dropouts from the old fragmented society, with its neatly compartmentalized analytic functions, and cause people to drop in to the new integrated global-village community.

Lorinda Cherry

Cherry joined Unix in 1972 as an assembly language programmer, originally with the purpose of building Unix systems. Because each had to be hand-crafted with the proper device drivers, it was important for someone on the project to do this work. However, she soon became involved with text tools.

If people know her, it's mostly for co-authorship of eqn and bc. She co-authored eqn with Brian Kernighan which might have eclipsed her fame a bit.

As we can see from an interview (see below) the text corpus on which a lot of early text processing development in Unix was done, were the Federalist papers typed into Unix from a paperback via teletype terminal. Excuse for lot of the work was "statistical analysis of authorship" research.

A more detailed precis on Cherry and her work, by Malika Seth An Interview with Cherry at Princeton's 'History of Science' Site BC − An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language (pdf)

On Quality and Naturality

Cherry: No, the graphics is easy. The hard part is getting a language that you can teach to a math typist that will just flow off her fingertips to complicated graphics. I think the language part of that is what was neat about it. It’s still what’s neat about it. The graphics part of it, I think Tech is still better as far as what EQN does and what Tech does. From a mathematical standpoint I think you’ll find Tech better, but I don’t think Tech stuff is anywhere near as natural to work with. That may be very prejudiced, I don’t have a…