“You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.” WorldTwoDiesChoicesInformationRevolutionGlobalizationTwo Options Author:Andy Grove
“The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.” StatesLightNationsPowerfulRevolutionPowerlessGlobalizationFrench Revolution Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.” TechnologyEconomyRevolutionCompetitionProfoundPaceFierceStaffRequirementsUnpredictableGlobalizationChaoticIndustrial RevolutionPace Of Change Author:Bruce Tulgan
“Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.” PeopleActionFormSocialCommunityGroupsMediaCommunicationRevolutionInternetCivilizationSmartPressesRateAvailableScalesEmpiresCollectivesInteractionTribesBureaucracyTelephonesGlobalizationMobilePrintingAlphabetNomadSocial InteractionPrinting PressMonotheismCollective Action Author:Howard Rheingold
“The reason that we are becoming less equal is because of the greater requirements, secure requirements, for a good job. This goes back to the '80s basically, this started changing as globalization and the IT revolution merged, and each started to drive the other.” ReasonJobsGreaterRevolutionBecomingEqualSecureRequirements80sGlobalizationGood Job Author:Thomas Friedman
“I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the merger of globalization and the IT revolution. I think it's that. That is the real challenge that we face today. Unlike the Soviet Union, it has no face, it has no missiles, but it is something that challenges every job, every city and every community.” ThinkingShouldRealTodayJobsFacesCommunityChallengesCitiesRevolutionShould HaveUnionsAlsSovietReplacedSoviet UnionGlobalizationMissilesMergers Author:Thomas Friedman
“I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.” ThinkingStatesLightNationsPowerfulRevolutionPowerlessGlobalizationFrench Revolution Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.” ArtHelpingReligiousRevolutionTerrorNationalismImmenseMasterpieceGlobalizationExtremismWorldviewReligious ExtremismIndustrial RevolutionUpheavalPandemics Author:Martin Filler
“To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.” RealityCultureIndividualNationsRealizingEconomyPossibilityBuildingRevolutionShapesBordersOur TimeBarriersPatrioticGlobalization Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001