Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

The world is such a small place.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

We face a world where borders matter less and less.

Globalization is the central reality of our time.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

Like it or not, we are all in this together now, rich nations and poor alike …

Because we know so much more, immediately, about what’s going on all over the world, there is less room to hide.

Today we live in a global village but we don’t have our global elders to guide and inspire us.

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before..