The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players . The subtitle of your new book, The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players, seems to summarize your message. The subtitle is a formulation of how telecommunications is creating one single global economy, but at the same time empowering individuals and small groups by providing them opportunities that only big companies had before. For instance, my own company, Megatrends Ltd., comprises only four people, including me. But we are involved in 57 joint ventures in 42 countries.
Many small players are global forces today.
This could never be done before. It's being played out, and it's being accelerated, and it's being assimilated. Sometimes it's just dinosaurs mating. But sometimes it's necessary infrastructure. For example, you can't make 747s in your garage.