A new map of the world

摘要

With the end of the cold war, old ideological divisions are over. Virtually all nations proclaim allegiance to global markets. But a more intractable division is taking hold, this time based on technology. A small part of the globe, accounting for some 15% of the earth's population, provides nearly all of the world's technology innovations. A second part, involving perhaps half of the world's population, is able to adopt these technologies in production and consumption. The remaining part, covering around a third of the world's population, is technologically disconnected, neither innovating at home nor adopting foreign technologies.