Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrase 鈥済lobal village鈥 a long time before
the advent of the Internet. He died back in 1980, just as the information
revolution was about to explode, and since then his ideas have taken on a
completely new lease of life. The 鈥淧ostmodern Encounters鈥 book series is a set
of six essays that examine how some of the most influential ideas of the 19th
and 20th centuries have now been remoulded in order to fit a different society
in a different time. McLuhan is the subject of the latest of these. You鈥檒l find
the old master in the book Postmodern Encounters: Marshall McLuhan and
Virtuality by Chris Horrocks. Published by Icon Books, 拢3.99, ISBN
1840461845.
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