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    Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
    Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
    Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
    Audiobook16 hours

    Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

    Written by Parag Khanna

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    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 to explain the 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 23, 2016
    ISBN9781515980803
    Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
    Author

    Parag Khanna

    Parag Khanna is the founder and managing partner of FutureMap, a global strategic advisory firm that specializes in data-driven scenarios and visualizations. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including The Second World, Connectography, and The Future Is Asian. Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century” and featured in WIRED’s “Smart List.” He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to more than 150 countries. 

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    • 1/5
      Found it unreadable. Same idea over and over. Each sentence like a news headline rather than smooth writing.

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    • 5/5
      One cannot depend on reading the tea leaves to predict future outcomes but by examining the camel trails and waterways of the past and their resource connectivity in terms of today’s global outreach and commercial infrastructure “connectivity“ rather than possession by warfare pinpoints geographical clusters and not nation states that are the new dynamic force. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the future and strategic outcomes.

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