global village
nounEtymology
Coined by Marshall McLuhan in 1962.
Definitions
The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by…
The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.
- But certainly the electro-magnetic discoveries have recreated the simultaneous “field” in all human affairs so that the human family now exists under conditions of a “global village.”
- McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related.
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