Podcasts about connectography

Parag Khanna, Founder & CEO of Climate Alpha and international bestselling author of seven books, including Move and Connectography, discusses how climate change, migration, and sophisticated data science can and should change investment strategy. https://www.afire.org/podcast/202304cast/ Beyond the immediate crisis of inflation, interest rate increases, and even bank failures, are far more impactful threats to investment strategy. Where people are going thanks to increasing climate pressures will impact asset values not just in the far future but within the timeline of existing investments. What should investors do to better invest and better protect their existing portfolios? Parag Khanna, Founder and CEO of Climate Alpha, an AI-powered analytics platform that drives future-proof real estate strategies, recently with AFIRE CEO and podcast host Gunnar Branson to discuss how climate change, migration, and sophisticated data science can—and should—change investment strategy for years to come, as the world now faces some of the most drastic climate challenges seen in this epoch.

Jason Hartman starts off the show discussing the changing economy and how economic prosperity isn't usually good for human character. Too many people start taking advantage of being able to make the easy sell and stop playing the long game, only focusing on the short game. He also explores the impact golf courses are having to property values as many are shut down across the country due to lack of interest. Then Jason talks with Parag Khanna, author of The Future is Asian and founder of FutureMap, about what's really going on in regards to the trade war and its impact on Asia (which doesn't just mean China). The two discuss the role of technology in killing jobs around the world and Asia's impact on global consumption growth. Key Takeaways: [2:36] Times of economic prosperity are not good for human character [4:48] Golf courses are shutting down, which is causing massive property value drops and need to figure out what to do with the land [7:53] Buildings are going up in China in around 90 days Parag Khanna Interview: [11:21] What is Connectography? [16:13] The premise of The Future Is Asian [19:23] Parag can tell you who's going to win a trade war with China [21:17] Technology is killing jobs a lot faster than trade is [25:48] Most of the consumption growth is coming from Asia [29:38] International competition is getting bigger and bigger, making any missteps even costlier [35:38] Companies are shifting entire operations overseas to take advantage of those markets, but that's not necessarily a bad thing for America Website: www.JasonHartman.com/Masters www.ParagKhanna.com

Jason Hartman talks with Parag Khanna, author of The Future is Asian and founder of FutureMap, about what's really going on in regards to the trade war and its impact on Asia (which doesn't just mean China). The two discuss the role of technology in killing jobs around the world and Asia's impact on global consumption growth. Key Takeaways: [1:29] What is Connectography? [6:21] The premise of The Future Is Asian [9:31] Parag can tell you who's going to win a trade war with China [11:25] Technology is killing jobs a lot faster than trade is [15:55] Most of the consumption growth is coming from Asia [19:46] International competition is getting bigger and bigger, making any missteps even costlier [25:45] Companies are shifting entire operations overseas to take advantage of those markets, but that's not necessarily a bad thing for America Website: www.ParagKhanna.com

Jason Hartman talks with Parag Khanna, author of The Future is Asian and founder of FutureMap, about what's really going on in regards to the trade war and its impact on Asia (which doesn't just mean China). The two discuss the role of technology in killing jobs around the world and Asia's impact on global consumption growth. Key Takeaways: [1:07] What is Connectography? [5:59] The premise of The Future Is Asian [9:09] Parag can tell you who's going to win a trade war with China [11:03] Technology is killing jobs a lot faster than trade is [15:33] Most of the consumption growth is coming from Asia [19:24] International competition is getting bigger and bigger, making any missteps even costlier [25:23] Companies are shifting entire operations overseas to take advantage of those markets, but that's not necessarily a bad thing for America Website: www.ParagKhanna.com

Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap a data and scenario-based strategic advisory firm. Parag's newest book is The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). He is author of 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). In 2008, 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. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. On this podcast, Parag discusses the Belt and Road initiative as well as China’s and Asia’s role in the future. Parag’s unique insights on the intersection of culture, technology, infrastructure, cities, and geography make this podcast one not to be missed!

Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario-based strategic advisory firm. Parag's newest book is The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). He is author of 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). In 2008, 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. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. On this podcast, Parag discusses the Belt and Road initiative as well as China’s and Asia’s role in the future. Parag’s unique insights on the intersection of culture, technology, infrastructure, cities, and geography make this podcast one not to be missed!

On the second day of fanfare's Manifesta communal breakfast conversations we talked to initiator, curator, and writer Rikke Jørgensen. With an overall focus on the conditions of creative labor, this talk concerned the use of networks as a creative method. For Manifesta's collateral events Rikke, together with her Italian colleague Valentina Gioia Levy, is putting together the public programme ”Art & Connectography. Remapping the Global World Through Art” which through a interdisciplinary selection of installations, lectures, and collaborations directs focus to ”mobility, migration, political geography and global culture in a local context”. Before turning our mikes on, we already shared a coffee with Rikke, during which the conversation naturally led to her first edition of Arts & Globalization held in Copenhagen, and prior to this the initiative Nørrebro Art Salon, a place for cultural conversations. Both of which you can find more information about on the links provided in the show notes. As we proceeded, the conversation moved on to talking about the financial conditions for cultural platforms, the struggle to maintaining independence and the possibility of cross disciplinary dialogue through art and cultural networks. This third round of traveling interviews coincides with the participation of fanfare inc. at the collateral events of Manifesta12 in Palermo. During this presentation fanfare inc. installed a display of multiple printed flags, sustainable furniture made of sicilian fruit boxes, and a three day­ open communal palermo breakfast. As with the previous presentation at It's a Book in Leipzig, we presented a lively organic instalment of fanfare inc. an a annual creative research project looking into the conditions of nomadic design labour. Taking place this year, in five different cities, the focus of this edition of fanfare inc. is tools. Along with the annual catalogue, the project brings together a travelling display, a website, and this series of conversations presented through the fanfare tetatet podcast channel. Links: https://www.facebook.com/events/449500462161541/ http://www.artsandglobalization.com/

As cities swell in size, population, complexity, and economic influence, Parag Khanna shares his thoughts about how national governments will gradually will decentralize governance to cities. GUEST Parag Khanna is an international relations expert and best-selling author. His recent book, CONNECTOGRAPHY, looks at the growth of cities and how they will determine the future of global civilization. *You can learn more about his book here: http://www.paragkhanna.com/connectography *Parag Khanna is the managing partner of Hybrid Reality Pte Ltd, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm. FULL PODCAST Listen to the entire interview from the Life in 2030 podcast here: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/future-cities-urbanizing-our-world-s1e6/ LISTENER FEEDBACK What do you think? What role will this global shift toward city life shaping our society, business, and politics over the coming decades? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com. MORE QUANTUMRUN PODCASTS Listen to full podcast episodes at: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast SUPPORT THE PODCAST Want to support the show? Then be sure to subscribe, like, heart, share, review, and recommend this podcast to your friends. The more support we get from fans like you, the more often we can publish new episodes. It really does help!

Parag Khanna shares his thoughts about the trends driving today's urban growth, as well as the trends that will drive the urban growth of tomorrow’s megacities. GUEST Parag Khanna is an international relations expert and best-selling author. His recent book, CONNECTOGRAPHY, looks at the growth of cities and how they will determine the future of global civilization. *You can learn more about his book here: http://www.paragkhanna.com/connectography *Parag Khanna is the managing partner of Hybrid Reality Pte Ltd, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm. FULL PODCAST Listen to the entire interview from the Life in 2030 podcast here: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/future-cities-urbanizing-our-world-s1e6/ LISTENER FEEDBACK What do you think? What role will this global shift toward city life shaping our society, business, and politics over the coming decades? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com. MORE QUANTUMRUN PODCASTS Listen to full podcast episodes at: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast SUPPORT THE PODCAST Want to support the show? Then be sure to subscribe, like, heart, share, review, and recommend this podcast to your friends. The more support we get from fans like you, the more often we can publish new episodes. It really does help!

By 2050, roughly 70% of the world will live in cities (90% in the developed world), yet 70% of the infrastructure needed to house this influx of urbanites doesn't exist yet. Parag Khanna shares his thoughts about what are the top two to three areas he thinks future urban planners should focus on when building tomorrow's megacities. GUEST Parag Khanna is an international relations expert and best-selling author. His recent book, CONNECTOGRAPHY, looks at the growth of cities and how they will determine the future of global civilization. *You can learn more about his book here: http://www.paragkhanna.com/connectography *Parag Khanna is the managing partner of Hybrid Reality Pte Ltd, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm. FULL PODCAST Listen to the entire interview from the Life in 2030 podcast here: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/future-cities-urbanizing-our-world-s1e6/ LISTENER FEEDBACK What do you think? What role will this global shift toward city life shaping our society, business, and politics over the coming decades? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com. MORE QUANTUMRUN PODCASTS Listen to full podcast episodes at: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast SUPPORT THE PODCAST Want to support the show? Then be sure to subscribe, like, heart, share, review, and recommend this podcast to your friends. The more support we get from fans like you, the more often we can publish new episodes. It really does help!

In this episode of the Life in 2030 podcast, we explore the Future of Cities, how they’ll grow, why we’re drawn to them, and the new set of powers they’ll steal away from future governments. (Subscribe to the Life in 2030 podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or YouTube.) SPECIAL GUESTS *Parag Khanna is an international relations expert and best-selling author. His recent book, CONNECTOGRAPHY, looks at the growth of cities and how they will determine the future of global civilization. You can learn more about his book here: http://www.paragkhanna.com/connectography Parag Khanna is the managing partner of Hybrid Reality Pte Ltd, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm. *Alex Winter, CEO and Founder, of Placemeter is urban intelligence platform that works with a large range of municipal governments (and retailers) worldwide to help them make more informed decisions about how they grow. LISTENER FEEDBACK What do you think? What role will this global shift toward city life shaping our society, business, and politics over the coming decades? Send us your thoughts at Feedback@Quantumrun.com. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com. Or post a comment in one of our Future of Cities articles, also published on Quantumrun.com. We go into way more detail about this topic there. LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC This podcast is based off of this Quantumrun.com article: http://www.quantumrun.com/prediction/our-future-urban-future-cities-p1 Read the rest of our Future of Cities series. MORE LIFE IN 2030 Listen to more podcast episodes at: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast CREDITS Executive producer, writer, narrator: David Tal, President of Quantumrun. Reach him @DavidTalWrites across all social media. Producer and podcast editor: Kaelah Shimonov All music heard throughout this podcast was composed by Karl Gutowski. SUPPORT THE PODCAST Want to support the show? Then be sure to subscribe, like, heart, share, review, and recommend this podcast to your friends. The more support we get from fans like you, the more often we can publish new episodes.

Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Parag Khanna makes his return to Future Squared upon the release of his follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed Connectography, entitled Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info State which in the wake of Brexit and Trump argues for a new kind of democracy for a complex 21st century, one that Khanna calls a "direct technocracy," led by experts but perpetually consulting the people through a combination of democracy and data. When not penning books, Parag is a leading global strategist and world traveler. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm. If you haven’t listened to it already, check out episode #39 in which Parag talks about his previous book Connectography which explored mankind’s investment of more than ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world’s burgeoning megacities together and the profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Topics Covered: - Parag’s new book, Technocracy in America - Trump (of course)- Technocratic systems - Lessons from Switzerland, Singapore and India's technocratic Governments - Why technocracy can end economic policy flip-flopping which usually comes at a detriment to the people - Public private partnerships, startup ecosystem and expert engagement - How to recruit and engage top talent to Government - Artificial intelligence and universal based income  - Transforming education to address the growing gap between productivity and workforce - The evolving role of Government   Show Notes: Parag’s Website - www.paragkhanna.com/ Parag's book: https://amzn.to/2QDvGe2 Parag on social: www.linkedin.com/in/drparagkhanna twitter.com/paragkhanna www.facebook.com/DrParagKhanna --- I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one. Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski

A special Boom Festival "Future Fossils on The Road" episode featuring some awesome people Michael met while playing and speaking at the amazing biennial psytrance festival in Portugal.Shaft Uddin is a Tantric Unicorn and Sacred Sexual Awakener (with noisy arm bangles): http://sacredsexualawakening.com* Support Future Fossils Podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/michaelgarfield *We discuss:Shadow work, “turning into the swerve,” and going into darkness to claim the light. Realizing that the monster in your dream is you. Dealing with people’s projections and how to make peace with the people who embody your opposite or rejected self – in other words, how to be a “polyamorous sex cult leader” with grace and dignity and humility.“There’s nothing wrong with desire. There’s nothing wrong with harnessing your sexual energy for greater abundance and manifestation.”The dam is to the river system as the taboo is to the body. How do our needs to control nature manifest in ways that obstruct or interfere with our well-being?The horrible true history of the corset – designed to keep women from speaking up for themselves.“The more I study the vagina, the yoni, the sacred space, the more I understand myself. Because I understand where I came from.”The historical tendencies of masculine magic being about projecting the will and controlling nature, and feminine magic being about aligning will with the power of natural cycles.The power of the vulnerability of group intimacy and Michael’s experience with The Body Electric School at Burning Man 2008.Shaft’s ambidextrous “twin goddess awakening” practice and the creation of circuits of loving energy and other “woo woo stuff” that cured his loneliness, depression, and substance abuse.The difference between “polyamory” as loving multiple people and recognizing the original unity and non-separation of all of us and loving universally (see also Alice Frank’s “uniamory”).Polyamory vs. Transparent Love (and other Principles of Unicornia)“Don’t leave me!”(and then immediately)”It’s okay, I’m fulfilled in myself, it’s fine.”— TIME TRAVEL (not externally, but internally) and FATE —Following the histories of the atoms that compose us into the stars and nebulae from which our parts originated = internal time travel!The myth of Atlantis as an example of “misplaced concreteness” of the racial memory of an ancient extinction our cells still remember, not necessarily the story that we tell ourselves about an ancient city.Graham Hancock’s argument that a 13,000 year old comet impact ended the Pleistocene and the possibility that epigenetic molecules have coded this event in our cell nuclei – as well as other even more ancient extinction events such as The Great Oxygenation Event (in which the evolution of photosynthesis nearly destroyed all life).People are building bunkers preparing for a catastrophe that happened two billion years ago!Recycling everything.Faith in humanity and a belief in the Star Trek vision.“I believe that we will start flourishing.”Christopher Ryan vs Stephen Pinker and clashing narratives about the progress of our species and whether or not we really are more peaceful than we were as foragers.“I get my knowledge off of YouTube and Facebook.”— WOO ALERT ––We might as well go there: crystals. Meditating on them. Going back to Lemuria through crystal meditation time travel. “OR are we projecting onto it?”Exalting the natural world by our awareness and appreciation of it. Ensouling technologies by naming them. To observe something turns it from a possibility into an actuality. So with New Age weirdness, how many hallucinations does it take to qualify as reality?Iboga teaches Shaft to “Ask a tree.”Michael: “If my cohost were here to reign me in, we might not even be having this conversation.”Biogeomagnetism and Michael’s 2008 vision-hypothesis that solar maxima and mimina might correlate to changes in the expression of different hormonal balances and behavioral patterns, possibly entirely different genetic expression patterns and states of consciousness.S: “Do you believe in past life regression? I just paid $400 for my one.”M: “Why’d you do that when you can talk to a tree for free?”Camillo introduces himself. Our first third-party guest! He weighs in on the possibility of the cycle of learning that a soul goes through…Is “how literally true it is” the right question? Or do we just have a modern human obsession with FACTS?M: “We don’t realize we’re in this Russian doll of nested dreams. And so we regard LOCAL reality as REALITY. And then you get out of that atmosphere and it gets more and more diffuse.”Writing Field Guides to the Denizens of DMT Space:- the very circus vibe- “like with ayahuasca, there’s always a snake”…and on to Jeremy Narby’s revelations in his book, The Cosmic Serpent, about how plants communicate to animals about their phytochemical properties through gross anatomy.Camillo talks about synesthetic communication with the body, mapping brain regions to reinterpret signals from the body from feeling to visual cortex processing, etc. How archetypes might be the firmware-esque stable mappings of visual and emotional content onto personified entities. (Why would something like that evolve?) Filtered through the specificities of culture, universal human archetypes become specific deities and spirits.S: “THIS is why I want to have a church.”M: “This is why my dad doesn’t want me starting a church.”The Ten Principles of UnicornUnicorn Power BalladsBiophotonics and the DNA Light InternetM: “Maybe the medieval view of things as endlessly regressing celestial spheres is closer to the truth.”Mapping possibility as multiverses on a spherical coordinate plane, and the impossible as antipodal to you, and what’s just unlikely as on the horizon, and what is as where you’re standing. And it all moves when you move.“I basically suppressed my superpowers. I chose to live a lower form of existence…because what really made me happy was ‘Getting paid and getting laid.’ And it made me super happy until two years ago, when I had my awakening.”Michael Crichton’s experience, as reported in his autobiography Travels, of learning to see auras. How Shaft and his former lover learned to see auras. Shaft and Camillo share some exercises and anecdotes about how to move energy.Burning Man as a physicalized internet and the advent of “noetic polities” in which people affiliate and orchestrate according to interests and values, not blood relations or geographic proximity. Will this “unscheduled fluid simultaneity” of liminal zones like festivals be the norm in a few decades, as we get more and more invested in the internet? Nod to Doug Rushkoff’s book Present Shock and his term “narrative collapse.” “Let’s see if it’s in flow! Kind of a spiritual bypass; no agreements.”Scheduling as a byproduct of modern city time; flow as a byproduct as tribal nonlinear time.C: “You’re not the mountain from which the river flows. You’re something in the river that’s going with it, and you’d better just swim with it.”M: “But maybe if you had the mass of a mountain in people that were all trying to get the river to flow upstream, you could do it.”M: “Do you know [of] Peter Diamandis?”S: “Like a true shaman, I don’t read. I learn through experience. Tell me.”M: “Okay, well, through my experience of reading people…”S: [Devious Cackle]Taking an active stance toward the future. Seeing yourself as an active contributor to the future (rather than feeling disempowered by someone else’s vision of the future).Abundance vs. Scarcity in history and economics and how the kind of abundance Diamandis predicts for the next century will radically change our sense of value/priority and allow us to be more deeply generous with one another.C: “A lot of us live in a state of mental scarcity when we’re actually some of the richest people in the world.”Michael’s perspective on Lisbon and the awesomeness of Europe vs. the ridiculous waste and price of the USA.Shaft and Kamillo on the difference in agricultural and food standards in the USA vs. Europe.Parag Khanna and his book Connectography, which argues that our connective infrastructure and economic relationships define boundaries more than actual national borders.The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the light and dark sides of globalism vs. planetary culture. NOT THE SAME.Shaft’s three step plan for extricating yourself from the system.(Camillo is doing the exact same thing.)C: “I think the universe is going to show you more love if you show more love to it.”Reliance on the system we are trying to escape.M: “What does capitalism actually produce? It seems like people who are trying to escape capitalism is the main product.” Alex joins the conversation and drops a knowledge ball on us about permaculture. Shaft brings up Tamera, a sustainable free love community in Portugal – and his mission to travel the world’s intentional communities and model his own on their best features.M: “Every generation’s trash becomes something valuable to the next generation.”Was the Baby Boomer acquisition/trash-creation phase the caterpillar phase of humanity, gathering and consolidating for an evolutionary transformation?Art made out of trash! Building bricks!Steve brings up the possibility of Universal Basic Income. Camillo mentions that Finland will actually be implementing UBI next year!Lynn Rothschild’s recent speech arguing for Universal Basic Income because capitalism needs consumers and a middle class to keep things in circulation.Capitalism is based on extraction - nod to Episode 9 with author Ashley Dawson on his book, Extinction: A Radical Critique.The origins of the word wealth.Everyone’s perspectives on the future:- Steve wants to get involved rather than just complaining.- Camillo wants people to learn about finding how to make their passions their jobs and creating abundance for everyone before we destroy ourselves.- Shaft believes in Star Trek, that we’ll live in a beautiful future that’s like Sweden, only everywhere.- Alex hopes that our good choices reach a critical mass that changes everything in the direction of sustainability.- Michael asks, “What is the change that each of us must go through in order to make the world we want to live in BELIEVABLE?”The only way to move forward into this world is as complete people. 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Today's guest, Parag Khanna is a best-selling author in addition to being a CNN Global contributor and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Asia & Globalisation at the National University of Singapore. He shares with us many of the facts and figures behind his new book, Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization. His book highlights what he believes to be the two major irreversible, mega-trends of humanity, urbanization and infrastructural connectivity. When discussing the U.S., Mr. Khanna says the U.S. should be re-mapped physically and better internet connectivity and better transport systems should be put into place in the next 5-10 years.    Key Takeaways:   Jason's Editorial: [1:32] The 1031 Exchange allows you to exchange one property for two without paying capital gains. [5:30] Do you want to come on the show and debate the income property being the most historically proven asset class in the world? [7:58] Here are the Contest Winners for the Cincinnati/Dayton, Ohio Property Tour.   Parag Khanna Guest Interview: [11:55] What does the term Connectography mean and how does connectivity alter our destiny? [13:58] The more connectivity we build the better the outcome is for the whole world. [18:19] Domestic inequality causes a friction that better connectivity could alleviate.  [22:14] Parag believes the U.S. should be re-mapped physically. [24:19] There are unbelievable benefits to spreading low-cost mobile, smartphones. [25:14] The Connectography book comments on the two big irreversible mega-trends of humanity, urbanization and infrastructural connectivity. [29:42] Engaging and connecting to North Korea may make it a more peaceful place. [35:22] Contact information for Parag Khanna.     Mentioned in This Episode: Jason Hartman Properties Cincinnati Property Tour Sign Up Parag Khanna @paragkhanna on Twitter Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

How can new decisions about connectivity raise the bar for business? Find out by listening on-the-go to Episode 68, as we speak with Parag Khanna, a leading global strategist and bestselling author of numerous books, including Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization. Parag is a CNN Global Contributor and featured TED speaker, as well asRead More The post Connectography: A Growing Force for Driving Opportunity appeared first on Business Advancement.

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Our first instinct as technologists or users of technology is to think of 'connectivity' as digital connectivity -- the internet, our smartphone. But the internet is just the latest in a long line of connectivity that spans centuries, not just decades: transportation, energy, communication. The internet, in fact, is the newest kind of supply chain -- a "data supply chain" -- with technology, goods, capital, people (human capital), and ideas moving across it. We're moving towards a world where infrastructure and supply chains (and the friction between them) matter more fundamentally than even geography and political borders. This in turn is reshaping everything, from companies (including "stateless superpowers") to cities ("megacities") to identity. But what does this mean for jobs? Or those who don't have connectivity and mobility? Does this lead to a filter bubble? The evidence suggests otherwise, argues the author of the new book Connectography, Parag Khanna, in this episode of the a16z Podcast. Khanna -- a senior research fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at theNational University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and a CNN global contributor -- traveled to Iran, Mongolia, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Ukraine and many more places to analyze and document the global "connectivity" phenomenon. Despite "millennia of cultivated cultural and linguistic provinces" and practices, this connectivity is reorganizing the world. The views expressed here are those of the individual AH Capital Management, L.L.C. (“a16z”) personnel quoted and are not the views of a16z or its affiliates. Certain information contained in here has been obtained from third-party sources, including from portfolio companies of funds managed by a16z. While taken from sources believed to be reliable, a16z has not independently verified such information and makes no representations about the enduring accuracy of the information or its appropriateness for a given situation. This content is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should consult your own advisers as to those matters. References to any securities or digital assets are for illustrative purposes only, and do not constitute an investment recommendation or offer to provide investment advisory services. Furthermore, this content is not directed at nor intended for use by any investors or prospective investors, and may not under any circumstances be relied upon when making a decision to invest in any fund managed by a16z. (An offering to invest in an a16z fund will be made only by the private placement memorandum, subscription agreement, and other relevant documentation of any such fund and should be read in their entirety.) Any investments or portfolio companies mentioned, referred to, or described are not representative of all investments in vehicles managed by a16z, and there can be no assurance that the investments will be profitable or that other investments made in the future will have similar characteristics or results. A list of investments made by funds managed by Andreessen Horowitz (excluding investments and certain publicly traded cryptocurrencies/ digital assets for which the issuer has not provided permission for a16z to disclose publicly) is available at https://a16z.com/investments/. Charts and graphs provided within are for informational purposes solely and should not be relied upon when making any investment decision. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The content speaks only as of the date indicated. Any projections, estimates, forecasts, targets, prospects, and/or opinions expressed in these materials are subject to change without notice and may differ or be contrary to opinions expressed by others. Please see https://a16z.com/disclosures for additional important information.

Parag Khanna, senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, joined us to discuss & launch his latest book “Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilisation” from Asia first. Our conversation began with his new maxim “Connectivity is destiny” over the age old wisdom of “Geography is destiny”. We discussed how The post Episode 106: Connectography & Connectivity is Destiny with Parag Khanna appeared first on Analyse Asia.

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair welcomes in globetrotter, CNN analyst and author Parag Khanna to discuss his book “Connectography”, which attempts to re-envision our world's maps based on a rapidly changing, increasingly connected society. Parag starts off discussing his travels from a very young age, and how it shaped his view of the world. He then delves into just how the world has rapidly become a “supply chain society” in the last 50+ years, leading to a world where traditional maps reflecting the borders of nation-states don't quite realities of the world today.  Marc and Parag to go on to discuss who the winners and losers are in [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair welcomes in globetrotter, CNN analyst and author Parag Khanna to discuss his book “Connectography”, which attempts to re-envision our world’s maps based on a rapidly changing, increasingly connected society. Parag starts off discussing his travels from a very young age, and how it shaped his view of the world. He then delves into just how the world has rapidly become a “supply chain society” in the last 50+ years, leading to a world where traditional maps reflecting the borders of nation-states don’t quite realities of the world today.  Marc and Parag to go on to discuss who the winners and losers are in [...]