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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The world considered as a single community in which telecommunications link the inhabitants together.
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- noun The
world as asingle community ofinterdependent inhabitants who areinterconnected by contemporarytechnology , especiallytelevision and theWorld Wide Web .
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Coined by Marshall McLuhan circa 1964.
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