The world is not only becoming interconnected.

It seems that not many people realize that the world hasn't become just interconnected with the raise of the Internet, and truly global media. Trade has managed linked the economies of many countries so tightly together, that they need each other for their continued growth.

 

Borders are losing their current meaning each day with the flow of goods, ideas, and information. In many ways, borders are becoming just a geographic reference to place the point the origin, or where a product is consumed. As time goes by, more people are seeing themselves not only as a citizen from a certain country, but as part of something bigger.

While they jury is still out on what will all this ultimately mean to humanity at large, so far it seems that we will be able to make it work for the better since there are more people actually working to make it so. So much so, that trying to stop this global may prove to be impossible since the benefits of making it happen seem to out wight the pains of growing into a global community.

And to be honest, its on our best interest to make sure that the people take control of it in order to make it work in a way that benefits most of us. I don't see local identities being completely lost, since its important to know our root. Yet, the free flow of people around the world will become a given, just as the free flow of ideas have become a norm.

The most important thing for me, is that we need to have people being able to freely move around the whole world in order to actually make a better world possible. Only when people are able to come together freely, we can hope to build a something better.

Like or not, the world is a lot more interconnected that most realize or want.

With all the trade wars, and the resurgence of some nationalist movements, going, it seems that many don't seem to acknowledge how integrated the world has become. It has become almost impossible to find products that don't have some degree of components made in several countries, or being sourced to third party manufactures on other country.

Not only that, the advent of the Internet means that most people, and businesses, can make contact almost anyone else without much regard where they are geographically speaking. Not only that, we can access information and content form any other region with relative easy in both legal, and illegal, ways. When you combine this with smartphones, it means that those connections are much easier and stronger.

Borders are becoming only relevant to mark a geographic place, but irrelevant for people and information movements. With time, we are building a global village and more of a global identity, though I don't see countries totally disappear. I seeing their meaning changing to something else.

Global integration is a matter of time, what we should be doing is making it so it benefits as many people as possible. We should be building the framework that makes it happen, not trying to stop it.

As it goes, we should be bringing people together not tearing them apart. It the way to move forward.