Social developments from digital environments
24.The Death of Distance
- Horizontal bonds (language, culture, jobs) will be strengthened across different parts of the globe.
- Vertical bonds
(governments and companies
to people) will weaken. - Familiarity may (or may not) breed love; but it will drive knowledge of others.
- Income distribution across countries will narrow, but within countries will widen.
- Digitization
leaves tracks: commercial use of
content can be targeted. - Information overload will both enable and cripple government surveillance efforts.
ComputerWorld's Outsourcing guide, 2006 [.pdf]
*Internet fails the poor in developing countries, and often, those countries themselves
*Google's China Problem (and China's Google Problem
Study Question
What's the "current situation" on the predictions that Carincross made about vertical and horizontal bonds, and income distribution? Domestically? Globally?
Want to learn more:
Frances Carincross, Death of Distance
