1. Globalization: Geo-economic Change
... World Wide Web, it can also apply to the modernization of modes of transportation (Thrift, 30). Prior to the 20th century, information could only be transported through physical methods, libraries and archives being simple examples. The process of sharing information has become faster due to the inventions of the car, train, and airplane, as well as, telecommunication innovations such as the internet, e-mail and fax machine ... current global economy. In the fifth chapter of Geographies of Global Change, Richard Wright intertwines Thrift's idea of "time-space compression" and its effect...
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