Originally posted by whodey
Technology allows it? Its like the arugment that guns kill people rather than people kill people. Technology is just a mere tool. We should therefore, be looking at the ones using those tools instead of the tools themselves.
Okay; but globalization is human nature, when technology allows it.
Think about it. We now have technology that allows us to communicate with anyone in the World at any time for free (or basically for free).
If I need computer work done and I can pay the guy down the block $30/hr or someone equally adept in India $5/hr, it's human nature for me to choose the latter. The ability to communicate with anyone anywhere naturally causes people to think in terms of globalization. I can't find a product in New York? Fine. Let's see if we can find it in Hong Kong.
Governments certainly can help or hurt the process of globalization. But given the technology, the process of globalization is human nature.
Clearly, I don't think it's fair to say that the reason there was less globalization in the 50s was that there was more hostility to it in World attitude. In the 50s it was much harder and much more expensive to communicate with people, making much globalization impractical.