All-at-once-ness

Ours is a brand-new world of all-at-once-ness. "Time" has ceased, "space" has vanished. We now live in a global village...a simultaneous happening. We are back in acoustic space. We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling, the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us.

Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Massage", 1967, p. 63