The world has changed and the ground has shifted under us. All that is solid melts into air, in a new age defined by what Zygmunt Bauman called “liquid modernity.” Globalization is not new, but in the past two decades it has crossed a novel threshold. The tremendous interconnectedness of trade has been joined by a global system of communication and computing, one that has now become accessible to most of the developing world, along with cheap commercial air travel.
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