The historian Eric Hobsbawm points out that by the 1880s the world was already worthy of the name global village. Nearly every corner of the globe had been discovered and colored in on the map.
歷史學家艾瑞克・霍布斯邦指出，早在一八八○年代，地球已是名副其實的地球村，每一個角落幾乎均已為人所知，也都大致繪成地圖。