Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/03452_Field_PRGV T13.txt

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. . . 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