Also Marshall McLuhan (with references to earlier works, like Sapir 1933): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_

Also Marshall McLuhan (with references to earlier works, like Sapir 1933): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village Also this sounds prescient: > No chapter in Understanding Media, later books, contains the idea that the global village and the electronic media create unified communities. In an interview with Gerald Stearn,[16] McLuhan says that it never occurred to him that uniformity and tranquility were the properties of the global village. McLuhan argued that the global village ensures maximal disagreement on all points because it creates more discontinuity and division and diversity under the increase of the village conditions; the global village is far more diverse. * Ibid