Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
by Parag Khanna
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"Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the worlds burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious transport corridors and power show more grids are unscrambling Africas fraught colonial borders; even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war-torn landscape. At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber-communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the worlds ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together." -- show lessTags
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Ho appena finito di leggere questo straordinario libro che si muove tra scienza e fantascienza, geografia e economia, passato e futuro, passando per il presente. Ha una visione veramente globale della storia. Non sono un tecnico, sono soltanto un lettore abbastanza smaliziato per capire che un libro del genere non lo si "impasta" così facilmente. Il giovane autore rappresenta degnamente la nuova generazione di scienziati dell'economia globale che ha le sue radici nella "connectogeografia", la nuova scienza che cerca di connettere l'uomo al suo ambiente in un modo in cui nella sua storia è stato stato mai connesso.
Ho appena finito di leggere questo straordinario libro che si muove tra scienza e fantascienza, geografia e economia, passato e futuro, passando per il presente. Ha una visione veramente globale della storia. Non sono un tecnico, sono soltanto un lettore abbastanza smaliziato per capire che un libro del genere non lo si "impasta" così facilmente. Il giovane autore rappresenta degnamente la nuova generazione di scienziati dell'economia globale che ha le sue radici nella "connectogeografia", la nuova scienza che cerca di connettere l'uomo al suo ambiente in un modo in cui nella sua storia è stato stato mai connesso.
One cannot depend on reading the tea leaves to predict future outcomes but by examining the camel trails and waterways of the past and their resource connectivity in terms of today’s global outreach and commercial infrastructure “connectivity“ rather than possession by warfare pinpoints geographical clusters and not nation states that are the new dynamic force. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the future and strategic outcomes.
Found it unreadable. Same idea over and over. Each sentence like a news headline rather than smooth writing.
Sees trade in US depending on fostering of already existing "city-states", such as the Texas Triangle (DFW-Houston, San Antonio
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Parag Khanna is Managing Partner of FutureMap, a scenario planning and strategic advisory firm. He has been a fellow at Brookings, New America, and the Lee Kuan Yew School at the National University of Singapore, as well as an advisor to the US National Intelligence Council and US Special Operations Forces. Khanna holds a PhD from the London show more School of Economics and bachelor's and master's degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. show less
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