The Global Village

S2E10

Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers

The Global Village
Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century

Extending the visionary early work of the late Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village, one of his last collaborative efforts, applies that vision to today’s worldwide, integrated electronic network.
When McLuhan’s groundbreaking Understanding Media was published in 1964, the media as we know it today did not exist. But McLuhan’s argument, that the technological extensions of human consciousness were racing ahead of our ability to understand their consequences, has never been more compelling. And if the medium is the message, as McLuhan maintained, then the message is becoming almost impossible to decipher.

Oxford University Press

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