The architect of this phenomenon is an immigrant from Hong Kong named Charlie Woo, who, more than 20 years ago, began buying moderately priced playthings from the Far East and selling them to Mexican retailers. Technology gives people the power to weave connections all over the world. Technology frees people from tyranny of place. Consumers, of course, can surf the Internet at any time for the best deals on the best products available anywhere. Television, of course, beams news and culture to the world's most remote living rooms.
Capital is the second engine.
The third engine is management. International consultancies and business schools have helped to seed a global canon of management. Those three forces haven't increased everyone's fortunes, of course. Thanks to globalization, some people have lost their jobs and their income, while others have merely been overlooked. Your job could be shipped overseas.