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Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities,
one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic
growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks,
eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive
technological innovation, the newest crop of top-ranked
universities. Asia is also the world's most ethnically,
linguistically and culturally diverse region of the planet, eluding
any remotely meaningful generalization beyond the geographic label
itself. Even for Asians, Asia is dizzying to navigate. Whether you
gauge by demography, geography, economy or any other metric, Asia
is already the present - and it is certainly the future. It is for
this reason that we cannot afford to continue to get Asia so wrong.
The Future Is Asian accurately shows Asia from the inside-out,
telling the story of how this mega-region is coming together and
reshaping the entire planet in the process.
Where will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in
2040? What will the map of humanity look like in 2050? Mobility is
a recurring feature of human civilisation. Now, as climate change
tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments
destabilise and technology disrupts, we're entering a new age of
mass migrations - one that will scatter both the dispossessed and
the well-off. Which areas will people abandon and where will they
resettle? Which countries will accept or reject them? As today's
world population, which includes four billion restless youth, votes
with their feet, what map of human geography will emerge? In Move,
global strategy advisor Parag Khanna provides an illuminating and
authoritative vision of the next phase of human civilisation - one
that is both mobile and sustainable - while guiding each of us as
we determine our optimal location on humanity's ever-changing map.
Which lines on the map matter most? It's time to reimagine how life
is organized on Earth. In Connectography, Parag Khanna guides us
through the emerging global network civilization in which
mega-cities compete over connectivity and borders are increasingly
irrelevant. Travelling across the world, Khanna shows how
twenty-first-century conflict is a tug-of-war over pipelines and
Internet cables, advanced technologies and market access. Yet
Connectography also offers a hopeful vision of the future - beneath
the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart, a new
foundation of connectivity is pulling it together.
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