Two decades ago, globalization was often described as a great flattening force. Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat captured the optimism of a moment when technology seemed poised to collapse distance, connect markets, democratize information and allow people and organizations anywhere in the world to participate in the same increasingly integrated system. Much of that happened. A team in New York can work in real time with architects in London, engineers in Seoul, fabricators in Italy and investors in the Gulf. Documents move instantly. Translation is increasingly automated. Expertise can be assembled from anywhere. But something else did not happen. The world became connected without becoming culturally uniform.
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