. . . today, the instantaneous world of electric 
information media involves all of us, all at once. 
Ours is a brand new world of “All-at-onceness.” 
Time, in a sense, has ceased and space has 
vanished. Like primitives we now live in a “global 
village” of our own making, a simultaneous 
happening. The global village is not created by the 
motor car of even by the airplane. It is created by 
instant electronic information movement. The 
global village is at once as wide as the planet and 
as small as the little town where everybody is 
maliciously engaged in poking his nose into 
everybody else’s business. The global village is a 
world in which you don’t necessarily have