Globalisation - Prophecies of Doom
According to the Mayan calendar the year 2012 is an important date. December 21st 2012 marks the 'end of time' according to Mayan prophecies. The lords of the underworld [xibalba be - see Guatemala in Lagom Sisu Manana) will rise up and our world will cease to be.
Globalisation - The Economy
Why money? Or more correctly, why cash? In the Nordic countries the use of bank cards, credit cards and mobile telephones, are replacing cash when it comes to simple transactions of buying a bus ticket, car park fees, and retail sales. With increasing trade over the internet (by card, paypal, on-line bank transfer), the question of 'why cash?' is becoming increasingly relevant.
Globalisation - Technology
An article in Time magazine earlier this year speculated over worst possible scenarios and what kind of disaster would be most devastating for 'world order.' It would not be a major terrorist strike, nor a nuclear plant disaster - the worst possible scenario that would lead to a global economic and political melt-down, would be the collapse of the internet.
Globalisation - Cultural Awareness
Sure, it's a cliché that internet has brought the world that much closer. It's a cliché but no less true for that. The cultures of African villages, and Asian communities; the music and stories of the griot in the Sahara and the dance rituals of Bhutan, indigenous Australia, and Inuit Greenland, obscure and forgotten languages of archepelago nations around the world (Phillipines, Indonesia, Polynesia, etc) - are accessible, recorded and kept alive, and available to all of us.
