McLuhan, Marshall,  1911-1980, <br/><br/>
The global village :  transformations in world life and media in the 21st century / 
Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers. 
 - xiii, 220 pages :  illustrations ;  22 cm. 
 - Communication and society .
 - Communication and society .
<br/><br/>Includes index and bibliography: page [199]-205. 
<br/><br/>I. Explorations in visual and acoustic space. The resonating interval ; The wheel and the axle ; Visual and acoustic space ; East meets west in the hemispheres ; Plato and angelism ; Hidden effects -- II. The global effects of video-related technologies. Global robotism : the satisfactions ; Global robotism : the dissatisfactions ; Angels to robots : from Euclidean space to Einsteinian space -- III. The United States and Canada : the border as a resonating interval. Epilogue : Canada as counter-environment -- IV. A glossary of tetrads. Tedradic glossary. 
<br/><br/> The premise for this book is the distinction between what the authors call'visual space', which is the left-brain, linear, quantitative reasoning tradition of the West, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, as against'acoustic space', which is equated to the holistic approach of the East. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195079104  hadiah 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mass media--Technological innovations.<br/>Mass media--Social aspects.<br/>Technology--Social aspects.