Third, we'll zoom in on regionalization.
geo, a phenomenon that has attracted a great deal of
interest that has some clear geographic roots but
that also is related to some of the other elements of the cage framework.
And that will supply a segue way into the last segment of this discussion,
where we talk about geography inter, interrelates with the cultural,
administrative, and economic differences also highlighted by the CAGE framework.
So, let's start off by talking about geographic Globaloney.
Because in some sense,
while all the elements of the cage framework are supposed to become
progressively more irrelevant, if we were in fact moving towards a flat world,
geography in some sense is the factor that has attracted the most attention.
And this has been going on for a while.
So, as one observer wrote, when you read a whole bunch of
books that focus on technology, or what I refered to earlier as techno-trances,
it's amazing how quickly people simply go on to assert, that distance is dead,
or that borders no longer matter.
What's really striking about this quote though is that it's not
an observation about recent writings.
The quote is from George Orwell, writing in 1944,
expressing his grave dissatisfaction with the amount of geographic
globaloney he found in the writings of the first half of the 20th century.
Since then, if anything, the pace of such globaloney seems only to have accelerated.
So, since 1990 we've had Kenichi Ohmae's, The Borderless World.
We've had Frances Cairncross's, Distance is Dead, and of course,
we've had Tom Friedman's, The World is Flat.
So, how do we counter this kind of geographic globaloney?