Waubonsee Community College

Connectography, mapping the future of global civilization, Parag Khanna

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-443) and index

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Connectography

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Parag Khanna

mapping the future of global civilization

"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 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." --, Amazon.comConnectivity, not geography, is our destiny. 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. Khanna explores the profound consequences this will have for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity

Part One: Connectivity As Destiny -- Chapter 1: From Borders To Bridges -- Chapter 2: New Maps For A New World -- Part Two: Devolution As Destiny -- Chapter 3: The Great Devolution -- Chapter 4: From Devolution To Aggregation -- Chapter 5: The New Manifest Destiny -- Part Three: Competitive Connectivity -- Chapter 6: World War III -- Or Tug-Of-War? -- Chapter 7: The Great Supply Chain War -- Chapter 8: Infrastructure Alliances -- Chapter 9: The New Iron Age -- Chapter 10: Hopscotch Across The Oceans -- Part Four: From Nations To Nodes -- Chapter 11: If You Build It, They Will Come -- Chapter 12: Getting On The Map -- Chapter 13: Supply Chains As Salvation -- Part Five: Toward A Global Society -- Chapter 14: Cyber Civilization And Its Discontents -- Chapter 15: The Great Dilution -- Chapter 16: When Nature Has Its Say, Get Out Of The WayConnectivity as destiny. From borders to bridges ; New maps for a new world -- Devolution as destiny. The great devolution ; From devolution to aggregation ; The new manifest destiny -- Competitive connectivity. World War III-- or tug-of-war? ; The great supply chain war ; Infrastructure alliances ; The new Iron Age ; Hopscotch across the oceans -- From nations to nodes. If you build it, they will come ; Getting on the map ; Supply chains as salvation -- Toward a global society. Cyber civilization and its discontents ; The great dilution ; When nature has its say, get out of the way -- Conclusion: From connectivity to resilience