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Today with electronics we have discovered that
we live in a global village, and the job is to create
a global city , as centre for the village margins. The
parameters of this task are by no means
positional. With electronics any marginal area can
become centre, and marginal experiences can be
had at any centre. Perhaps the city needed to
coordinate and concert the distracted sense
programmes of our global village will have to be
built by computers in the way in which a big
airport has to coordinate multiple flights.
Marshall McLuhan to Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, Dec. 23,
1960, Letters of Marshall McLuhan , (Toronto,