We can make computers that are almost human; they can book our flights, beat most of us at computer games, work the stock market, even write poetry and compose music. In our fast-paced world, electronic technology is all around us. We use it from the time we wake up to the sound of our alarm clock radio to the time we turn on the news before we go to bed. It is in our telephones,

One might think that more and more of the world is looking like America, but it is America that is looking more like the rest of the world. With our "Little Italy's" and our "China Towns", we gain a sense of other cultures. In our big cities, we can find almost any kind of multicultural restaurant; examples like this define the global village. In our increasingly diversified world, we all come together as one and "the traditional metaphor for this is that of a mosaic".(Iyer, BR p. 307) We are becoming "E Pluribus Unum", or one from many as we approach our interdependent and multinational world called the global village.

Some negatives of the global village are clear. With the global village, we could lose our own senses of culture and tradition. And while some places are wired for international transmission, other third-world countries do not have the same advanced technology and this may widen the gap between the fast and slow countries. Amazingly enough, Tokyo, for example, has more telephones than the whole conti

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