A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Today with electronics we have discovered that we live in a global village, and the job is to create a global city, as center for the village margins. The parameters of this task are by no means positional. With electronics any marginal area can become center, and marginal experiences can be had at any center. Perhaps the city needed to coordinate and concert the distracted sense programs of our global village will have to be built by computers in the way in which a big airport has to coordinate multiple flights.
Letter to Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, December 23, 1960, Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 278
Year: 1960
↪ Also at #5661, #5673
Compiled by William Kuhns
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