Living from 1911 to 1980, Marshall McLuhan was able to analyze the advancing of technology and predict the coming roll of mass electronic media. He published the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Within this book he spoke philosophically of media. One of the most important thoughts that McLuhan expressed was “electric media.” He brought forward the idea of the world as a society intertwined globally by mass media. This was his idea of “the global village.” He was probably the first person crazy enough to see the potential of media in advancing technology and electronic media.
We now have his “global village.” Computers, the Internet, and television are viable mediums for art and media. McLuhan foresaw the coming age that we now live in, and how mass media would affect the world. Electronic media has connected the world, and it is the digital canvas that is our medium.
~Travis Erickson
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Travis,
Mcluhan's idea of the global village was a huge idea. It is a really amazing concept of being able to send a digital image to your neighbor and someone in China at the same exact speed so they can both see it just after a person sends it.
~Karen Borden
McLuhan changed his idea from global village to global theater once sputnik was launched. he said that the earth was framed in sputniks proscenium arch and that all the earth became a spaceship ( and stage)and we became its crew (actors)
and one huge effect was the beginning of the ecology movement. BTW mcLuhan's project is often referred to as media ecology.
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