October 22, 2009. Technology, environmentalism, urbanization and globalization trends are nothing new, said Ted Abernathy, executive director of the Southern Growth Policies Board, to an audience of business students October 20. Communications technology has evolved over centuries, he suggested. Early examples of globalization include the evolution of the Silk Road and the creation of the East India Trading Company. Environmentalism has been a movement in the United States for more than a hundred years.
The choices we make and the paths we follow – the “tangents,” as he described them –in response to these issues are the key to progress and economic development. [for the complete article]



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