This is Globalization 3.0***in which the world went from being small to tiny. There’s a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It’s a difference in degree that’s so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.
As a person who has lived abroad for over ten years…Friedman’s words cannot ring more true yet unless you have travelled…the idea of a shrinking world is sometimes hard to get your head around.
See also: Global is good
