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Connectography : mapping the future of global civilization / Parag Khanna.

Khanna, Parag, author.
2016
GF47 .K43 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Connectography : mapping the future of global civilization / Parag Khanna.
Author
Khanna, Parag, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780812988550 (hardcover)
0812988558 (hardcover)
9780812988567 (electronic book)
9780399589379
0399589376
Published
New York : Random House, [2016]
Language
English
Description
xxv, 466 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
GF47 .K43 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.49022/3
Summary
"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.com.
Connectivity, 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-443) and index.
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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 Way.

Connectivity 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.

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