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electric process. The first being that information in
an electric network is decentralized. Suddenly that
means everywhere is anywhere and anywhere is
everywhere. And it doesn’t matter where on the
globe you reside, you suddenly are part of the
general global action. Therefore, global village. The
other thing too is that people still didn’t quite
understand quite what was happening in terms of
the second big discovery that McLuhan made, and
that is the fact that information integrates under
electric conditions. And instead of having logical,
sequential, linear process, and moving information
around, you suddenly have an agglomeration of
gigantic patterns of interplaying information