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“Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening”

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Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

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Electronic man has no physical body.

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With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings…

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Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the…

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The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now…

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Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and…

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Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of…

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Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and…

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Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line between neologism and hype? What's the language of the global village? How can we keep pace with technology without getting bogged down in buzzwords? Is it possible to write about machines without losing a sense of…

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There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded, undermined, threatened, wanting to have "stand-your-ground" legislation all over the place. It's alarming because at the moment, the fear is outweighing the benefits, and that's partially because the benefits have been so unequally distributed that lots…

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“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then there will…

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Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human…

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Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food…

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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of…

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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only…

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Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

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“Do not focus too much on the east, And forget the west. And do not ignore the south, To speak for the north. What happens in the east Has effects in the north, As the west has on the south. And do not focus on one species, And ignore another. Or love your father, But ignore your mother. Or love…

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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South…

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“The dream of stitching the world into a global village has been embodied in the nomenclature of modern technology—the net is interconnected, the Web is worldwide, media is social. And the dream has fueled a succession of grand collaborative projects, cathedrals of knowledge built without any intention of profiting from the creation, from the virtual communities of the nineties to…

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