Connectography
From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World andHow to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers and people will win.Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty first century Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world s burgeoning megacities together This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle and the South China Sea to explain the rapid and unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs of war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables The new arms race is to connect to the most markets a race China is now winning, having launched a wave of infrastructure investments to unite Eurasia around its new Silk Roads The United States can only regain ground by fusing with its neighbors into a super continental North American Union of shared resources and prosperity Connectography offers a unique and hopeful vision for the future Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars ambitious transport corridors and power grids are unscrambling Africa s fraught colonial borders even the Arab world is evolving a peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war torn landscape At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the world s ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together.Advance praise for Connectography Connectography is ahead of the curve in seeing the battlefield of the future and the new kind of tug of war being waged on it Khanna s scholarship and foresight are world class A must read for the next president Chuck Hagel, former U.S secretary of defense This bold reframing is an exciting addition to our ongoing debate about geopolitics and the future of globalization Dominic Barton, global managing partner, McKinsey Company This is probably the most global book ever written It is intensely specific while remaining broad and wide Its takeaway is that infrastructure is destiny Follow the supply lines outlined in this book to see where the future flows Kevin Kelly, co founder, Wired There s no better guide than Khanna to show us all the possibilities of this new hyperconnected world Mathew Burrows, director, Strategic Foresight Initiative at the Atlantic Council, and former counselor, U.S National Intelligence Council This book is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in business, science, arts, or any other field Mark Mobius, executive chairman, Templeton Emerging Markets Group A must read for anyone who wants to understand the future of humanity Sandy Pentland, professor, MIT Media Lab Free Download [ Connectography ] By [ Parag Khanna ] – kino-fada.fr I ve just finished reading Parag Khanna s Connectography It s comfortably the most disappointing book I ve read for a long time As a committed open borders and free trade kind of guy, I was expecting to lap this up Parag s main theme is that humanity is becomingconnected and that the supply chain will overtake the nation state as the main organizing mode of society I agree with him up to a point and I was hoping for some insights and analysis into what that actually means, but sadly th I ve just finished reading Parag Khanna s Connectography It s comfortably the most disappointing book I ve read for a long time As a committed open borders and free trade kind of guy, I was expecting to lap this up Parag s main theme is that humanity is becomingconnected and that the supply chain will overtake the nation...Parag Khanna reminds me of a younger Thomas Friedman During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Friedman was the most visible and prolific apostle of globalization most notably in The Lexus and the Olive Tree Khanna is now taking on that mantle The biggest difference between Friedman and Khanna is that the latter focuses muchon connections As the title of this book suggests, Khanna s Connectography explores how people around the world interact with each other He points out that mapp Parag Khanna reminds me of a younger Thomas Friedman During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Friedman was the most visible and prolific apostle of globalization most notably in The Lexus and the Olive Tree Khanna is now taking on that mantle The bigge...A book chock full of stats on globalization, disintegrating borders, flows of peoples and goods, connectivity, supply chains, megalopolis, and emerging trading blocks and new silk roads Lavishly illustrated and full of info on the way things are changing and where things may be headed.I really enjoyed this book It is dense but the macro concepts are so important In a nutshell Man made borders are not as important as man made supply chains Nation building within man made borders is not as important as group affinity think along the lines of I m a Google r vs I ...Connectography aims to explain how supply chains areimportant than borders, and how the world is rapidly moving into an era of interconnectedness that we haven t seen before As well as making it very clear that all...On the whole I enjoyed this book with a few major caveats The overarching message is simply that connectivity is paramount when it comes to increasing wealth and quality of life In a connected world people aremobile withoptions for employment, and are thus better able to improve their well being At the same time, when supply chains are globalized, there isredundancy built into the system which providesoverall stability Khanna makes the argument that supply chains, inf On the whole I enjoyed this book with a few major caveats The overarching message is simply that connectivity is paramount when it comes to increasing wealth and quality of life In a connected world people aremobile withoptions for employment, and are thus better able to improve their well being At the same time, when supply chains are globalized, there isredundancy built into the system which providesoverall stability Khanna makes the argument that supply chains, infrastructure, and digital connectivity are ultimatelyimportant than national borders and promoting the development of these will providelong term benefit to individuals and global stability than doubling down on border controls and isolationist policies A connected world results incooperation and interdependence between nations, corporations, and individuals, leading tostability by replacing war with a supply chain tug of war Hi...The unfulfilled promise of this book ultimately led me to rate it so poorly I love the concept, the idea of exploring connections between myriad people and places and integrating them with actual maps a natural fit for exploring connected geographic data all to provide some insight to how the future might unfold Unfortunately, the execution of this idea fell far short of where I thought it could have gone.I wanted to give up on this book, bu...This book was a difficult one for me I think I agree with half of it There is a perverse blind faith in capitalism that the author banks on for his arguments and it doesn t help the overarching argument that connected societies aremoral I am convinced in his arguments of dropping borders and increasing trade I am far less convinced in his stance on lessening corporate taxes or slackening the pressures that states have to put on concentration of wealth This division of inequality into This book was a difficult one for me I think I agree with half of it There is a perverse blind fait...This is an optimistic take on globalization, which argues that infrastructure investment and connectivity is the key to unlocking the full potential of societies As Khanna argues fairly persuasively, in my own opinion , globalization is generally a positive, but its benefits have not yet been extended to everyone Physically connecting people, resources and telecommunications allows the possibility of opportunity and dignity to be extended broadly Isolation, whether individually or within pol This is an optimistic take on globalization, which argues that infrastructure investment and connectivity is the key to unlocking the full potential of societies As Khanna argues fairly persuasively, in my own opinion , globalization is generally a positive, but its benefits have not yet been extended to everyone Physically connecting people, resources and telecommunications allows the possibility of opportunity and dignity to be extended broadly Isolation, whether individually or within political borders, on the other hand stifles people and prevents I first picked up the book after reading a few of his essays on the enduring importance of cities to human societies Cities have been around since the dawn of civilization and endure today, while nation states are a recent and perhaps transitory phenomenon Khanna envisions ...A great update to Friedman s The World is Flat China is the future for controlling the supply chain Best to work with them Best to build connections not walls.
- 03 May 2017 Parag Khanna
- Hardcover
- 496 pages
- 0812988558
- Parag Khanna
- Connectography