Aphorism

What do you think the following aphorism mean:
A)"The medium is the message"
B) "Global Village"

I have heard the term 'global village' before. I remember it being about how borders are almost disappearing in a sense because of technology. Now it doesn't really matter where in the world someone lives because technology has advanced that much. For example no we can contact someone living in Australia, the other side of the world, at the touch of a number. That is all thanks tot he telephone. Emails can be exchanged everywhere and anywhere as long as the Internet is accessible. That is just what i remember. When I looked up global village, the definition was, "the world viewed as a community in which distance and isolation have been dramatically reduced by electronic media (as television and the Internet)." I was pretty close. So once again boundaries are lost and losing touch with people is harder to do. The world is quite informed about the situations that go on in other places because of the media. Technology has truly changed the world.

As for the aphorism,"the medium is hte messge", I really had no clue what that meant. I looked it up and this is what I found. "A statement by Marshall McLuhan, meaning that the form of a message (print, visual, musical, etc.) determines the ways in which that message will be perceived. McLuhan argued that modern electronic communications (including radio, television, films, and computers) would have far-reaching sociological, aesthetic, and philosophical consequences, to the point of actually altering the ways in which we experience the world."
(http://www.bartleby.com/59/17/mediumisthem.html) So, how I undertsand this is the worlds views on almost everything has been changed in a drastic way because of the media. The media has changed from 40 years ago. It has even changed in the past 10 years, but the way we view the events around us has also been altered because of the form we get the news in. That is what I take out of this saying or aphorism.