Postliterate man's electronic media contract the world to a village or tribe where everything happens to everyone at the same time: everyone knows about, and therefore participates in, everything that is happening the minute it happens. Television gives this quality of simultaneity to events in the global village. [Carpenter & McLuhan, "Explorations in Communication," 1960]来自PIE*glebh, 球体，成球状。引申义地球，全球的。
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词根词缀： globe(e略)地球 + -al