This market is ripe for commercial exploitation. And Salutation will be a key technology in interconnecting these appliances. Naisbitt and Aburdene noted that national economies would no longer be self sufficient. Third world countries would be competing aggressively for market share through cheap labor and abundant natural resources. As business became more dependent on these new sources of labor and materials, national economies would become more interdependent.
American cars have parts made in Japan and Mexico and are assembled in Canada.
National boundaries were ignored to form the European Economic Community, and we no longer talk about the economic power of Japan or China, but rather the Pacific Rim. Financial markets are also intertwined. A rise or fall on the New York Stock exchange is usually duplicated on the Tokyo and London stock exchanges within the next business day. The world economy has also changed the focus of our social conscience. We are now concerned with the orphans of Rumania, the child sweat shops in Honduras, and the rain forest of the Amazon.