global village

English

Etymology

Coined by Marshall McLuhan in 1962.

Noun

global village (plural global villages)

  1. The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.
    • 1962, Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, page 31:
      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.”
    • 1964 July 3, “Blowing Hot & Cold”, in Time‎:
      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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