“Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.” FormPoliticalLanguageForceFieldsRegardDistanceCollaborationMultipleTechnologicalGeographyPlaying Fields Author:Thomas Friedman
“Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.” PoliticalPoliticsAuthorityDistancePrestigeDistance Relationship Author:Charles de Gaulle
“I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.” PoliticalSufferingValuesDifficultMoralJudgmentGainsDistanceIndifferenceDetachmentRelativismMalady Author:Pierre L. van den Berghe