Read the $1969$ Playboy interview with Marshall McLuhan: "A candid conversation..." and view the Ghemawat TED Talk video, "Actually, the world isn't flat." $($a$)$ Consider his question "How globalized are we$?"$ Using his criteria $($especially "globaloni" and "technotrances"$),$ and the information you have gathered from previous Modules, post to the discussion board an assessment of his opening question and your response to Ghemawat's concluding idea that "even incremental openness could make things dramatically better."

$($b$)$ Summarize McLuhan's main ideas in his interview and then compare Ghemawat's remarks to McLuhan's predictions in the Playboy article.