5 - Globalization

Summary

Everyone feels their life is determined by someone outside, and everyone wants to know who is this person? Who is this force? We thought that we were on the path to the first world and suddenly something went wrong. One minute the World Bank and IMF were saying Mexico was the best example. Now we are the worst example. What did we do? We are losing control. If we don't find another type of development, we are finished. We surrender.

Enrique del Val Blanco

In the 19th century people thought the machine was going to destroy their lives as they knew it, and today many people think that globalization is going to destroy their life as they know it. We have gotten accustomed to the idea that globalization will inevitably succeed. But I am not so sure anymore. Those of us who believe in globalization need to be more pro-active.

Klaus Schwab

As indicated by the enumeration of the dynamics driving turbulence on a global scale, it has become commonplace to stress the large degree to which powerful communications and transportation technologies are rendering the world ever more interdependent and the boundaries that divide local, national, and international communities ever more porous. Today a development in any part of the world can have consequences for every other part. What is distant is also proximate, paradoxical as that may seem.