YouTube helps bridge language barriers
Thursday, November 13th, 2008The late, great educator, philosopher and scholar Marshall McLuhan achieved much during his lifetime, but will be best remembered for popularising the term ‘global village’ back in the 1960s.
The Canadian professor was perhaps a little ahead of his time in realising that electronic mass media would eventually break down the barriers of time and distance that had thus far inhibited global communication from reaching its full potential.