Talk:Global village (disambiguation)

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Global Village definition: The world considered as a single community linked by telecommunications.

Global Village is also closely related to David Harvey's notion of 'Space-Time Compression'.

It is clear that the global village today is determined by telecommunications. That means optical cabling carrying light which translates into electronic signals. It is this system which gives us communication mediums such as telegrams, telephones, fax, internet and email. This global village therefore relies on a physical system.

So what is a global village actually doing? It is collapsing time and space barriers for human communication. For example, an email can be sent across the world in less than a second, so straight away this shows an eradication of time and space. . But let’s start at the beginning, all the way back to the Stone Age. The most advanced medium of communication was the stone walls which cave men painted on. For others to see these paintings they had to physically be standing infront of them. It would have taken time to get to this location and space to have traveled there.

Communication took its next step when when the Phoenicians developed the alphabet as early at 15th century BC. But this was limited to people who could read.

Democracy was only possible aurally. Politicians could only shout. Only a crowd standing near a shouting politician knew exactly what was happening, but for other people, they would of relied on word-of-mouth.

When information was put onto papyrus paper it meant that space got slightly smaller as this medium could be physically transported to different locations, unlike the cove paintings.

Communicating over distance usually required a courier. Written messages however could be placed on homing pigeons which could transport a message to far locations. Again this reduced time and space.

In the 1450’s Gutenburg invented the printing press. This allowed writings such as the Bible to be printed on a large scale. This medium extended the distance of voice which was previously about 50ft, to a distance limited to physical travel.

The beginning of electronic communication began in 1825 when William Sturgeon the electromagnet. Fifty years later Alexander Graham Bell designed a telephone system that could transmit speech electronically. This extended human voice across the atlantic ocean. Time and space had again been shrunk.

In the late 1980’s the internation network was invented, bringing communication speeds to the speed of light through the optical cabling we looked at earlier.

David Harvey mentions this collapse of time and space in his book ‘The Condition of Postmodernity’, "innovations dedicated to the removal of spatial barriers have been of immense significance in the history of capitalism, turning that history into a very geographical affair, the railroad and the telegraph, the automobile, radio and telephone, the jet aircraft and television, and the recent telecommunications revolution are cases in point"

Now we have a global village, a place where you and I can communicate immediately through a variety of mediums such as video calls, email, telephone and fax regardless of our location on this planet.

so global village's meaning is not writing here. let's go another door friends. this is a stupid page' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.253.198.225 (talk) 12:54, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

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