global village

English

Etymology

Coined by Marshall McLuhan circa 1964.

Noun

global village (plural global villages)

The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.
- 1964, "Blowing Hot & Cold," Time, 3 Jul.,
  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 (dìqiúcūn), 世界村 (shìjiècūn)
Dutch: mondiaal dorp n

Finnish: maailmankylä
Polish: globalna wioska f

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