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All Connected Now: Life in the First Global CivilizationWe are entering an "age of open systems" as systems of all kinds -- organizations, nations, ecosystems -- change in similar ways: Boundaries around systems are penetrated, challenged, renogiated, and relocated. Systems that were once relatively isolated develop new connections and linkages to other systems. Globalization is advanced even by anti-globalization movements, while global-scale problems such as climate change draw us together into the first global civilization.  --Jim Dator, University of Hawaii "Wise and wide-ranging, thoughtful and thorough, provocative and probing, Walt Anderson's book ranks among the very best of the proliferating literature on globalization. He clearly and concisely elaborates the complex processes whereby everything has become connected -- among human communities, within nature, and between the two -- and at the same time he fairly distinguishes between the positive and negative connections, leving the reader enlightened and excited to be alive at this moment in history." --James N. Rosenau, The George Washington University "Walt Anderson has done again what he does superbly well." Harlan Cleveland, President Emeritus, World Academy of Art and Science "Through his astounding range of knowledge, his skill in weaving together technology, culture, and politics, and his easy conversational style, he will help thoughtful readers to get their arms around the complex global realities people everywhere are facing." Lincoln Bloomfield, Professor Emeritus, M.I.T. |
