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Jock the Coleman

In the introduction to Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, he writes,‘Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.’

Wikipedia is, arguably, the most pervasive embodiment of McLuhan's vision of the "Global village".

McLuhan, M.(1964): Understanding Media. New York: Mentor