The global village would become a society suspicious of outsiders and intolerant of out-of-step behaviour

The global village, in its original context in McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy, was not an example of gleeful futurology. It was a warning. The global village would become, as real villagers often are, a society suspicious of outsiders and intolerant of out-of-step behaviour. McLuhan foresaw with horror the approaching end of print culture, with its privileging of the individual conscious voice. 

R. Young, Electric Eden: unearthing Britain's visionary music (2010), 377