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. 
 - New York ;  Oxford :  Oxford University Press,  c1989. 
 - 220 p. :  ill. b&w ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Pt. 1. Explorations in visual and acoustic space.<br/>Ch. 1. The resonating interval.<br/>Ch. 2. The wheel and the axle.<br/>Ch. 3. Visual and acoustic space.<br/>Ch. 4. East meets west in the hemispheres.<br/>Ch. 5. Plato and angelism.<br/>Ch. 6. Hidden effects --<br/>Pt. 2. The global effects of video-related technologies.<br/>Ch. 7. Global robotism: the satisfactions.<br/>Ch. 8. Global robotism: the dissatisfactions.<br/>Ch. 9. Angels to robots: from Euclidean space to Einsteinian space --<br/>Pt. 3. The United States and Canada: The Border as a Resonating Interval.<br/>Ch. 10. Epilogue: Canada as counter-environment --<br/>Pt.  4. A glossary of tetrads.<br/>Tetradic glossary. 
<br/><br/> Explores the new "laws" of media, "laws" fostering a dramatic collision of viewpoints. The first based on Visual Space - the linear, quantitative mode of perception characteristic of the Western world is preserved by the medium of print. While the second, based on Acoustic Space - the holistic, qualitative reasoning of the East - is being fostered by television, the technologies of the data base, communication satallites, and the globalmedia network. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195079104 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mass media--Social aspects<br/>Mass media--Technological innovations<br/>Technology--Social aspects
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23