May 22, 2000. I was changing planes at the new airport in Jakarta the other day, on the way to Stockholm from Vladivostok. You see, since the Cold War ended, we've gone from superpowers to spreadsheets, Pershings to Pentiums, the Berlin Wall to suburban sprawl, olive trees to Lexuses. Because the whole world is changing.
Nothing is local anymore.
It's all global because the Internet makes everything local, which is the same as everything being global, because nothing has to be local when everything's global. Especially the local. He gets it. He knows how the world works. I'd quote one of these guys here, but everyone's over at the Trilateral Commission's annual in London.