and having it front and forward in your own mind, 
so this is not a village, but the village metaphor 
works very well because what should have been 
obvious to anybody who was thinking about 
anything back in 1962 when the global village idea 
was promoted—which is that we are a unified 
planet—is now obvious because we are through 
with the era of television, so we know everything 
about television. The moment we are through with 
a certain era, we know everything about it. Now 
it’s obvious, the way it was obvious to people who 
really knew about the power of television, that 
books were very, very different. It’s now very 
obvious to people who know more about the