global village

global village

English

Etymology

Coined by Marshall McLuhan in 1962.

Noun

global village (plural global villages)

1. The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.
   • 1962, Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, University of Toronto Press, OCLC 428949, page 31:

     But certainly the electro-magnetic discoveries have recreated the simultaneous “field” in all human affairs so that the human family now exists under conditions of a “global village.”

   • 1964 July 3, “Blowing Hot & Cold”, in Time‎:

     McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related.

Translations

world as single community

Chinese: Mandarin: 地球村 (zh) (dìqiúcūn), 世界村 (zh) (shìjiècūn) Dutch: mondiaal dorp n Finnish: maailmankylä French: village global (fr) m German: globales Dorf n Polish: globalna wioska (pl) f