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October 6, 2011 06:45 pm PDT
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Population streams: globalization results in liquefaction
Venkatesh Rao (one of my favorite provocative thinkers) noodles around with the idea of "streams" -- demographics of people who follow a particular international course, in long, stable, weird, nearly invisible arcs. Rao calls this "Globalization as liquefaction" and says, "Globalization signifies an incomplete process, not a state. For a long time I was convinced [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SQUWny9URGU/population-streams-globalization-results-in-liquefaction.html
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