Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrase “global village” a long time before
the advent of the Internet. He died back in 1980, just as the information
revolution was about to explode, and since then his ideas have taken on a
completely new lease of life. The “Postmodern Encounters” book series is a set
of six essays that examine how some of the most influential ideas of the 19th
and 20th centuries have now been remoulded in order to fit a different society
in a different time. McLuhan is the subject of the latest of these. You’ll find
the old master…
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