Global Agility & the New Proximity

In our globalized era, you don’t have to travel to the world, the world comes to you.

The modern world -- 7 billion people, transnational companies, economic integration, airplanes, ocean freighters, the mass migration of jobs and people, and the World Wide Web – has breached the borders between global, national, and local.

Globalization has in fact radically redefined "proximity.”

The cost of ocean freight is so low that factories migrate to follow low labor costs.

And we have digitalized all human knowledge and the accelerating speed and spread of the Internet is putting the whole wide world at your fingertips.

We live in a science-fiction world of “wormholes” where any two distant points of the planet can be juxtaposed by “folding” time/space digitally. Travel is no longer about distance. It is about boundless networking and about curating the information that creates your “here.”

The economic and technological forces driving Globalization have erased all borders and “re-contextualized” our lives. We used to live in a comfort zone of personal, local, and national; we now neighbor everyone on Earth.