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A vivid description of the cultural, political, economic, and
environmental changes that globalization will bring to our world. Going
beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All
Connected Now describes four kinds of global change -- economic, political,
cultural, biological -- all of which are now accelerating, driven by the increasing
mobility of symbols, goods, people, and non-human life forms.
Anderson describes
how we 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, renegotiated, and relocated. Systems that
were once relatively isolated develop new connections and linkages to other systems.
Anderson argues that this globalizing world is radically "uncentralized"
even though people and societies are richly interconnected. All Connected Now
shows how globalization is advanced even by anti-globalization movements, while
global-scale problems such as climate change draw us together into the first global
civilization. Walter Truett Anderson earned his Ph.D.
in political science and social psychology from USC. He is the author of several
books, among them Reality Isn't What It Used To Be and Evolution Isn't
What It Used To Be. He is President, American Division, World Academy of Art
and Science, and is Associate Editor and Columnist for the Pacific News Service
in San Francisco. |
