GEOG 122 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 Welcome to the Global World
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Marshall mcluhan: global village , since the inception of the telegraph and radio, the globe has contracted, spatially, into a single large village (1964) Communication technologies has changed the geographical scale of how we live. Everyone is becoming more alike: everyone knows michael jackson, drinks coke, goes to mcd, uses social media, uses the same technology (iphone etc. ) Globalization has taken over the world and could be the end of geography as we know it. Alvin toler: place is no longer a place of diversity . Walt disney: it"s a small world after all : the appearance on a postage stamp is signiicant because he coined the saying the medium is the message . Hyperglobalists: history has turned a corner, and globalization is qualitatively diferent than before, no more nation states, no more far-lung corners of the world. Kenichi ohmae: ohmae divides history into two: industrial and post-industrial periods. Industrial period is one in which nation states hinder economic movement.
