The term “global village” was first popularized in the late 1960’s by Canadian communications maven Marshall McLuhan in response to the already powerful communications media of that day. But McLuhan could not have anticipated the cosmopolitan class, because he could not have anticipated the immense development of direct interpersonal communications media that allow cosmopolitans around the world to form friendships.
“地球村”这一词汇是20世纪60年代末加拿大通信大王麦克·卢汉（Marshall McLuhan）最先倡导的，他是针对当时已经很强大的通信媒体而言的。但卢汉没有预想到有国际阶层，因为他无法预见到私人直接通信传媒的蓬勃发展帮助全世界的国际人士建立起友谊。