Globalization

Globalization has been a megatrend over the last 15 years. The term refers to global communication between peoples, the exchange of products, and a variety of views, including culture, politics, general ideas, and more besides. The enablers of globalization are the transportation and communication networks. In the past, other eras also got the label globalization; for example,The Second Industrial Revolution, in Chapter 2, The Industrial Revolutions. The internet has been giving impetus to globalization since the 1990s. That was the era that changed the rules and the playing field of the engineering disciplines.

There is no single universal definition of the term globalization. Some people say that it is not possible to define it. The paper Definitions of Globalization: A Comprehensive Overview and a Proposed Definition, by Dr. Al-Rhodan and Gérard Stoudmann (Dr. Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Gérard Stoudmann. Definitions of Globalization: A Comprehensive Overview and a Proposed...