One World Insight is a multimedia meditation on the state of the world, by an American executive and entrepreneur, kicked off on a one year pilgrimage to emerging market nations. It’s an ongoing examination of business and culture through the prism of globalization at the dawn of the twenty first century. It’s a reflection on the implications of a flat, digitized world where someone’s problem is everyone’s problem, where outdated paradigms persist while new ones begin to emerge.
The challenges before the world arrest the mind – huge aspiring populations like China and India, carbon economies on overdrive, corporate hegemony, polluted fresh water and melting glaciers, rainforest and habitat loss, the hundreds of millions of losers in the race toward globalization, famine and decreasing biodiversity, nuclear and biological terrorism. Things move faster and with increasingly complexity.
Try as leaders get a hold of the situation, the future advances faster than the present. Answers are allusive and politicized. One World Insight is one humble man’s attempt to ponder what it might take for business and government to move past the “time of peril,” the perilous gap astronomer Carl Sagan described as the evolutionary gap between humanity as a “selfish teenager” and humanity as a “responsible adult.” The blog is also reflections on economics, business and innovation, as they are all related. It’s a canvas in which to integrate and discover one world.
The personal journey herein informs and inspires. While this dispatch is not a diary, the chronology around travel forms its backdrop and beginning. There are times where introspection is a useful if not only way to attempt to understand the mysteries of our world -- and give levity to stoic topics.
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