global village
noun
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The term global village is closely associated with Herbert Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian communications theorist and literature professor hailed by many as a prophet for the 20th century. McLuhan's mantra, "the medium is the message," summarized his view of the influence of television, computers, and other electronic information sources in shaping society and modern life. By 1960, he had delineated his concept of the "global village," and by 1970, the public had embraced the term and recognized the idea as both exhilarating and frightening. As a 1970 Saturday Review article noted, "There are no boundaries in a global village. All problems will become so intimate as to be one's own...."
Examples of global village in a Sentence
Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
This spontaneous convergence recalls the internet’s original dream of a global village.
—Jianqing Chen, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2025
To me, the moment recalls the utopian vision once shared by California’s internet pioneers and Chinese tech innovators and users: a digital agora and global village.
—Jianqing Chen, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2025
Blockchain has allowed people to think beyond their borders, imagining a global village where everyone can participate in the economy.
—Lisa Loud, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Modernization does not mean Westernization, and the global village will remain fraught with tension.
—Martijn Lampert, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2016
The two companies built devoted followings by promising to build populist technology for a changing world: X, formerly known as Twitter, with its global village of conversations, and OpenAI, the research lab behind ChatGPT, with its super-intelligent companions for human thought.
—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
The panel touched on issues of identity, generational change and the development of the post-pandemic, streaming-era global village.
—Variety, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
We’re each assigned a spot in that global village, the homelands reflecting the international nature of the refugee crisis: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia all get competing, squabbling enclaves.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
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“Global village.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/global%20village. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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