*A nomad ((in Latin) "people without fixed habitation") is a member of a community of people without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from the same areas, including nomadic hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), and tinker or trader nomads. Interestingly, he says that although it is a great advancement that now everyone is connected, in fact it harks back to an ancient time in human development when we were nomadic food gatherers, with no established home, wandering around for food. This globalized externalized extension of the human central nervous system causes the normal relationships between human beings to be reconstituted. The instantaneous communication with everyone in the world is the message he mentions. the internet) would create a medium where everyone is connected instantaneously with everyone else, resulting in the disruption of time and space and the subsequent reconstitution of all relationships. Marshall Mcluhan is famous for the quote “the medium is the message” in his 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. With extraordinary insight into the future that all of us are now living, he saw that what he called “electric technology” (i.e.
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