GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kenichi Ohmae, Alvin Toffler, Lady Gaga
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Marchall mcluhan (1964) perhaps the most famous canadian social sciences. Since the incepion of the telegraph and radio, the globe has contracted, spaially, into a single large village . Communicaion technologies have fundamentally altered the geographical scale. The whole world knows mj, seen star wars, knows lady gaga, mcds, coke, starbucks, nestle, google, twiter, facebook, wikipedia, itunes, youtube, apple, pc, linux, samsung. Alvin toler: the place is no longer a primary source of diversity . Walt disney: it"s a small world ater all . Hyperglobalists history has turned a corner and globalizaion is qualitaively diferent than before: no more naion states, no more far-lung corners of the world. Kenichi ohmae divides history into two: industrial and post-industrial periods industrial period naion states hinder economic movement post-industrial period arteries of the economy are cleansed of scleroic naion states and capital lows freely and unconstrained.
