Connectography
by Parag Khanna · first published 2016
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"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
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on “The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Roots of Mycenae” ↗Some of this was covered in the book Connectography by Parag Khanna https://www.paragkhanna.com/book/connectography-mapping-the-... I found the book maybe a bit overly optimistic/idealistic about how he thought infrastructure dependencies would impact…
on “U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves – over internet cables” ↗It's all based on the same book (Connectography). I highly recommend instead reading The Stack that just came out from MIT Press, which gives a much deeper analysis on the relationship between cities, software and geopolitics: http://thestack.org
on “How Hyperconnected Cities Are Taking Over the World” ↗