The Net won. With this peace has come connectedness. It's got a reason for being beyond its life as a word processor or payroll calculator. That expanded each individual's accessible world and ushered in the Gilded Age in the early 20th century. The Net now, like the railroads then, reduces the costs of buyers and sellers finding one another, negotiating and trading, Meyer explains.
Markets get more efficient.
Goods and services and talent become more mobile. All of that adds up to greater productivity. Greater productivity usually means prosperity. As it turns out, political and digital peace help each other go further than either could on its own. The global reach of the Internet breaks down national borders.