If there was one lesson I’ve learned in the last three years working for [Secretary Clinton] and being witness to significant shifts in power around the world, it’s that there is a significant shift in geopolitical power globally right now, from hierarchies, like the nation-state, to individuals and networks of individuals. This is something that’s being accelerated by increasingly powerful and ubiquitous information networks.
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Alec J. Ross at Davos as reported by The New Yorker (via cacioppo)
It is interesting that this is happening in both the government and private sector levels.
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