Goodbye Globalization, with Elisabeth Braw

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The telecommunications Revolution coinciding with the rise of globalisation is totally not a coincidence... you may be not old enough to remember the time when if you wanted to make transatlantic phone call you needed to book with the operator in advance - and it cost an arm and a leg. it was cheaper to send a missive by recording a message on a cassette tape and posting that, even if it needed to go to the USA from the UK. my mother and her sisters would do this all the time, living on 3 different continents. Then followed email this was also pivotal. Now we have portable video devices which can send back info about the conditions which products that we buy are made in - and that we now increasingly find are unacceptable... IMO globalisation was driven by Communications and of course we also needed the international Financial operations which were similarly driven by digital technology