Quotes from Naisbitt and Giddens

The New Asia, forged by economic integration, technology, especially telecommunications, travel and mobility of people, will increasingly look like one coherent region…Networks are at the core of the new global economy.

John Naisbitt Megatrends Asia, pp. 11, 21

Transformations in self-identity and globalization, I want to propose, are the two poles of the dialectic of the local and the global conditions of high modernity. Changes in intimate aspects of personal life, in other words, are directly tied to the establishment of social connections of very wide scope.

Anthony Giddens Modernity and self-identity: Self and society in the late modern age p32.