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Modern humans have created many thousands of distinct cultures. So what will it mean if globalization turns us into one giant, homogenous world culture? 
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With knowledge and data, a smarter world will divide work between computers and humans, search engine executive chairman says. Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino
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In the coming decades, humanity’s sojourns and journeys across the Social Web will transform as the technological and cultural seismic shift in global communication patterns and infrastructure brings use closer together and intimately connects us. The Internet is evolving in ways that may be currently hard to comprehend. If the global netizenry does not stand up for its rights and those of an unencumbered Internet, them corporate greed, myopic political leaders, and misplaced fear will prevent humanity for achieving an amazing future.
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"Evidence shows that most countries are making progress, but that few are managing to achieve inclusive and equitable progress," Richard and co-authors write. "Instead, most of the gains are taking place among the top socioeconomic quintiles, while the lower quintiles are seeing little or no progress." Poverty and the alleviation of its negative consequences are the main aim of the MDGs. Articles about ECONOMY http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=economy
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The modernization of isolated villages brings about a change in human information flow patterns that not only destroys the social fabric of the community, but also the economy and the landscape, according to Sander van der Leeuw, a Senior Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability.
Nicole McCauley's curator insight,
January 11, 2015 6:53 PM
A nice introduction to the impacts of globalization on the practices and ideologies of societies and the environment.
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Why Do Languages Die? Urbanization, the state and the rise of nationalism “The history of the world’s languages is largely a story of loss and decline. At around 8000 BC, linguists estimate that...
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Until the late 19th century and early 20th, every major urban central had its own ‘local time’, most often set to accord with astronomical time, where noon corresponds to the apex of the sun in the sky. But with the introduction of telegraph lines (and predominantly their use in calculating longitudinal maps), among other reasons, time was brought under international purview, and regulation.
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