Marshall McLuhan War and Peace in the Global Village

War and Peace in the Global Viillage is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following ist publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest". Marshall McLuhan illustrates the fact that all social changes are caused by introduction of new technologie. He interprets these new technologies as extensions of "self-amputations of our own being", because technologies extend bodily reach. McLuhan's ideas and observations seem disturbingly accurate and clearly applicable to the world iin which we live. War and Peace in the Global Village is a meditation on accelerating innovations and war.