Morse anticipated the global village concept decades before McLuhan

Evidence

It would not be long, he wrote, “ere the whole surface of this country would be channeled for those nerves which are to diffuse with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land; making in fact one neighborhood of the whole country” (Czitrom, 1982: 11–12). — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 787

Categorization

• XREF: Directly prefigures McLuhan’s ‘global village’ — a striking genealogical fact for communication studies students. — connects to: From Marx to McLuhan technology is theorized as an extension of the body — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 362
• QUESTION: How far back does the ‘global village’ idea actually extend? Worth tracing.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 787