![]() ![]() So, a virus-laden bat bites another mammal in China, that mammal is sold in a Wuhan wildlife market, it infects a Chinese diner with a new coronavirus and in a few weeks all my public schools are closed and I’m edging six feet away from everyone in Bethesda.īut that’s why this virus crisis is so not over. But it’s also meant that when things go bad in one place, that trouble can be transmitted farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever. This has driven a lot of economic growth. Which is why our planet today is not just interconnected, it’s interdependent - and in many ways even fused. And the iPhone was still Steve Jobs’s secret pet project.Īll of those connectivity tools, not to mention global trade and tourism, exploded after 2004 and really wired the world. Heck, when I started writing that book, Facebook was just being launched Twitter was only a sound the cloud was still in the sky 4G was a parking place LinkedIn was a prison for most people, applications were what you sent to colleges, Skype was a typo and Big Data was a rap star. ![]() The world has gotten so much flatter and interconnected since. I wrote my book “The World Is Flat ” about growing global interconnectedness in 2004. world will look like, but here are some trends I’m watching. We have not even begun to fully grasp what the A.C. ![]() Before the coronavirus crisis hit, I was toying with writing a book about 21st-century political parties, but in light of this global epidemic it’s obvious that whatever nonfiction book you’re working on now, put it down. ![]()
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