Marshall McLuhan's claim that a

'global village' is created by the repercussions of the new electromagnetic discoveries

Arthur C.Clarke argues that our

civilization could not exist without efficient communications, because it is hard to see

how international trade or cultural exchanges could exist without them

Changes in human organisation and in conceptions of the social order occurred

only a long time after the invention of writing. The spoken word continued to have

more force than the written word for a long period. This happened because most

people were illiterate and also the novelty of writing was so distant from their

traditional values that it... See more

Communication was immediate in an oral culture, where people depended only

on the spoken word in order to communicate with others. In an oral culture memory

was dominant because it was the only 'system' where people could store information.