How the World Was One

{{Short description|1992 English-language book by Arthur C. Clarke}}

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How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village is Arthur C. Clarke's history and survey of the communications revolution, published in 1992.{{Cite journal|date=1994-12-01|title=Book Reviews|url=https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/44/4/183/4160230|journal=Journal of Communication|language=en|volume=44|issue=4|pages=183–199|doi=10.1111/j.1460-2466.1994.tb00708.x|issn=0021-9916|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Beauchamp|first=K. G.|date=1993-06-01|title=How the World was One: Beyond the Global Village|url=https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/esej_19930032|journal=Engineering Science & Education Journal|language=en|volume=2|issue=3|pages=104|doi=10.1049/esej:19930032|doi-broken-date=12 July 2025 |issn=2051-2147|url-access=subscription}} The title includes an intentional pun; in English How the World Was Won would sound exactly the same.

This work is based on an earlier work by Clarke entitled Voice Across the Sea, published in 1958.{{Cite journal|last=Huntington|first=John|date=1994|title=Review of How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20719265|journal=Utopian Studies|volume=5|issue=1|pages=166–167|jstor=20719265|issn=1045-991X}}