It was Marshall McLuhan who
is credited with the term “global village,” a phrase he used to explain how the
world has been contracted into a village by “electric technology” and “instantaneous
movement of information” (The Gutenberg
Galaxy: Making of Typographic Man).
Though it now sounds like a cliché,
he coined the phrase in 1962, predicting that “the computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance
retrieval, obsolesce library organization, retrieve the individual’s
encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data of
a saleable kind. “
That’s a pretty remarkable
prophecy.
I was reminded of all this
recently when I came across this joyful video, combining the unitive power of
music and technology for a glorious effect:
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