these things as they are happening and the term 
that Marshall popularized—“global village,” has a 
great meaning for people today. They can 
understand it in their own lives. And so people are 
looking back at his work to see what he was saying 
and to see what insights he might have for the life 
of our time with its computers and very different 
kinds of communication.


Q:  There was some question whether anyone 
understood McLuhan’s ideas in his own time. I’m 
wondering now if the revival of McLuhan will bring 
a new, and perhaps better, understanding of his