By 2020, China could be on its way to becoming the world’s
largest economy. “Billions of computer chips will have launched a world in
which objects talk to each other.” Electronic money will send central banks
looking for fresh roles. Water will become the main cause of strategic tension.
Overcrowding will become a consistent feature around the
world. This will come with many bad consequences for poverty, health, and
social stresses. The challenges of traffic, housing, waste management, sewage,
and water supply in cities will become unbearable. Even Africa will face increasing
urbanization rates doubling the level of a generation ago.
Global warming will be one of the big worries of the future,
though there will also be many regional and local stresses. “China will need
one new 1,000-megawatt power plant every month.” If those new plants are based
on coal, acid rain could build up to a substantial problem in Asia by 2020. “Acid
rain could have a dramatic impact on Japan and its forests, just as it badly
damaged spruce trees in the Adirondacks and red maples in Pennsylvania over the
last decades.”
Quote:
"The new world economy is full of such radically different ways of doing things, many of which have nothing to do with the Internet and the narrow "new economy" concept that has become attached to it. It's more like a new mindset- brought about by the twin economic and technological revolutions that are behind all this."
Response:
This quote states that the Internet does not have much significance in the new world economy. It states that the new world economy is simply a new mindset. I disagree. In my opinion, the Internet has a lot to do with it. The Internet is the most popular thing in the world, and it influences many things. To say that the new, radically different economy does not have much at all to do with the Internet, in my opinion, is impossibly untrue.
Sources:
Rischard, J. F.. High noon: twenty global problems, twenty years to solve them. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Print.
Response:
This quote states that the Internet does not have much significance in the new world economy. It states that the new world economy is simply a new mindset. I disagree. In my opinion, the Internet has a lot to do with it. The Internet is the most popular thing in the world, and it influences many things. To say that the new, radically different economy does not have much at all to do with the Internet, in my opinion, is impossibly untrue.
Rischard, J. F.. High noon: twenty global problems, twenty years to solve them. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Print.
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I like the you are emphasizing a new mindset rather than new technology! Technology will be rapidly changing. We can't get attached to it! We need to learn how to learn!
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