Computer has made the world a global village in the sense that. First of all we define what computer is all about.
What is a Computer
A computer is a programmable machine. The two principal characteristics of a computer are: it responds to a specific set of instructions in a well-defined manner and it can execute a prerecorded list of instructions (a program). Global Village is a term closely associated with Marshall McLuhan, popularized in his books The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) and Understanding Media (1964). McLuhan described how the globe has been contracted into a village by electric technology[ and the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time In bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden implosion, electric speed heightened human awareness of responsibility to an intense degree.
Marshall McLuhan predicted the Internet as an “extension of consciousness” in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man thirty years before its commercialization. The next medium, whatever it is – it may be the extension of consciousness – will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual’s encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind Today, the term “Global Village” can be used to describe the Internet and World Wide Web. On the Internet, physical distance is even less of a hindrance to the real-time communicative activities of people, and therefore social spheres are greatly expanded by the openness of the web and the ease at which people can search for online communities and interact with others who share the same interests and concerns.
Therefore, this technology fosters the idea of a conglomerate yet unified global community. According to McLuhan, the enhanced “electric speed in bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden implosion has heightened human awareness of responsibility to an intense degreeIncreased speed of communication and the ability of people to read about, spread, and react to global news quickly, forces us to become more involved with one another from various social groups and countries around the world and to be more aware of our global responsibilities. Similarly, web-connected computers enable people to link their web sites together. This new reality has implications for forming new sociological structures within the context of culture.
Notes and references
Wyndham Lewis’s America and Cosmic Man (1948) and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake are sometimes credited as the source of the phrase, but neither used the words “Global Village” specifically. According to McLuhan’s son Eric McLuhan, his father, a Joyce scholar and a close friend of Lewis, likely discussed the concept with Lewis during their association, but there is no evidence that he got the idea or the phrasing from either; McLuhan is generally credited as having coined the term.
Sources
- Eric McLuhan (1996). “The source of the term ‘global village'”. McLuhan Studies (issue 2). Retrieved 2008-12-30.
- McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. (Gingko Press, 1964, 2003) p6.
- McLuhan, Marshall. Letters of Marshall McLuhan. (Oxford University Press, 1987) p254.
- Understanding Media p6.
- http://technorati.com/social-media/article/the-zuckerberg-galaxy-greets-mcluhans-centennial/
- http://technorati.com/social-media/article/the-zuckerberg-galaxy-greets-mcluhans-centennial/
Why is the world called a global village
The world is our common house. we all are the members of the families living in this world. the act or happening of one room in a house affects the other room. in the same way the incidents in one part of the world affects the other part of the world. in fact some of the incidents affects the whole world whereas some of them are long lasting in the same environment such as the atom bomb little boy & fat man dropped in hiroshima and nagasaki of china still has its affect in that environment.
Today in this twenty first century, only due to the advanced technology and science & development of infractures, the world has become very small.we can contact to our relatives just by sitting at one place though they are very far from us either in USA or China etc. we can also reach at any place of the world in very short period of time with the heelp of advanced transportation. we can even know and watch the news and condition of any place of the world just by sitting at a place with the help of advanced means of communication cuch as radio, television, internet etc. these several advanced technologies has made this world smaller. Thus we can say that the world has become a global village.
How has the world changed into a global village
it has changed to a global village because of the rapid growth and increase in the science and technology due to which the people are able to easily communicate with each other whether they are close or far away with one another.
What makes the World a global village
Globalization, Better telecommunications, Faster travel, America world is a globle village because our last few years ago we could not talk or communicate but now a days our technology is increasing we can keep touch with computer Internet cellphone
