The impact of globalization in Canada. Implications everywhere:
Month: July 2009
Latest read: Switch
Dan and Chip Heath made a splash with their book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (my 2007 review) and now the Heath brothers are up to it again.
Their follow up book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard is expected in early 2010.
If Switch is anything like Made to Stick, we’ll have our hands full of more great lessons about change.
BMW‘s upcoming 5 Series GT photographed against Santiago Calatrava’s work in Milwaukee….but you have to look very close to figure it out.
Trillion is the new billion
Thanks to the sharks on wall street, banking industry and mortgage “loan” business.
To no surprise globalization is bringing the world closer together and thereby making commerce “smaller” and faster as global financial markets increase the efficiency of established information systems. Recent growth of internet penetration has changed dramatically. Today China has more internet users than America has citizens.
Consider this form IF you can image everyone you know connected, literally everyone in the USA — then you would see China has surpassed our population. With almost 75% of Americans connected implications are huge since China has only 20% of its population connected. I blogged about this impact with YouTube in March.
Original graphic
Tags: Internet Users, China, population, internet growth, internet, economy, trends