Parag Khanna: "Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization" | Talks at Google
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We’re accelerating into a future shaped less by countries than by connectivity. Mankind has a new maxim – Connectivity is destiny – and the most connected powers, and people, will win. Connectography completes Parag Khanna’s trilogy on the future of world order. In this book he guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity more than borders. His journeys take us from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Panama City to Dubai, and the Arctic Circle to the South China Sea—all to show how 21st century conflict is a tug-of-war over pipelines and Internet cables, advanced technologies and market access. Yet Connectography is a hopeful vision of the future. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and innovations have eliminated the need for resource wars, global financial assets are being deployed to build productive infrastructure that can reduce inequality, and frail regions such as Africa and the Middle East are unscrambling their fraught colonial borders through ambitious new transportation corridors and power grids. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together. Parag Khanna is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. His previous books include The Second World and How to Run the World. He is also Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm, and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Moderated by Yasmin Green.
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The new age fraudsters sound wise but are really bullshitters. And they contradict themselves. For example, if we live in a "connected" world, why would migration be essential? The truth is exactly the opposite. And he says nothing of the horrific impacts of the lack of integration of people from the "third world". The reason they are STILL the third world is because they have draconian laws and customs. The speaker knows this very well as someone born in India and spent a lot of his young life in the UAE.
He's just another borderless new ager determined to destroy the western world. Trump's election victory is the antedote. -
Overlapping research with Keller Easterling.
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He also did a TED Talk. Worth checking out.
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So much interesting content. It needs another 10 videos to examine them in depth.
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