Connectography
Mapping the Global Network Revolution
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
27 November 2017
Summary
Which lines on the map matter most?
It is time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. We’re accelerating into a future shaped less by countries than by connectivity. A world in which the most connected powers, and people, will win.
In CONNECTOGRAPHY, Parag Khanna guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity and borders are increasingly irrelevant. He travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, London…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474604253 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1474604250 |
| Author: | Parag Khanna |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 27 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 36mm |
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‘Parag Khanna has vision’
For those who fear that the world is becoming too inward-looking, CONNECTOGRAPHY is a refreshing, optimistic vision - THE ECONOMIST
Incredible … We don’t often question the typical world map that hangs on the walls of classrooms - a patchwork of yellow, pink and green that separates the world into more than two hundred nations. But Parag Khanna, a global strategist, says that this map is, essentially, obsolete … With the world rapidly changing and urbanizing, [Khanna’s] proposals might be the best way to confront a radically different future - WASHINGTON POSTParag Khanna has visionA great feat of reportage - Financial Times on The Second WorldAbout The Author
Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna is Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo, the leading AI-powered geospatial predictive location analytics platform. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future (2021), preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019), as well as a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India and raised in the UAE, New York and Germany, he has travelled to more than 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
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