{"id":30730,"date":"2023-02-02T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=30730"},"modified":"2023-02-02T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:15:55","slug":"bustling-and-hustling-in-the-new-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/bustling-and-hustling-in-the-new-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Bustling and Hustling in the new digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jefferey D. Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. In this book, The Ages of Globalization \u2013 Geography, Technology, and Institutions,<\/em> Dr. Sachs takes the readers to reflect into the world\u2019s history behind present globalization and gaze into the economy of the seven ages of globalization. He divided the history of ages of globalization into the paleolithic age (70,000-10,000 BCE), neolithic age (10,000-3000 BCE), equestrian age (3000-1000 BCE), classical age (1000-1500 CE), ocean age (1500-1800), industrial age (1800-2000) and the digital age (21st<\/sup> century). Dr. Sachs brings and shares many expert insights into his breakdown of seven distinct ages of globalization to present that \u201cby studying the history of globalization, we can arrive at an informed understanding of globalization in the twenty-first century and how to manage it successfully.\u201d[1]<\/a> Dr. Sachs informs the readers to keep in mind five important questions throughout the presentation of his book: \u201cFirst, what have been the main drivers of global-scale change? Second, how do geography, technology, and institutions interact? Third, how do changes in one region diffuse to others? Fourth, how have these changes affected global interdependence? Fifth, what lessons can we glean from each age to help us meet our challenges today?\u201d[2]<\/a> Whether one likes it or not, the effects of globalization can be felt by every person living on this planet as we speak. The revolutions in each of these ages have taken all of us into the rapidly changing scene of the digital revolution. Whether you are living in the amazon driving your gas-powered motorboat or living in one of the bustling US cities driving your electric powered tesla, everyone feels a bit nervous, behind, and lost \u201cwith the vast increases in computational capacity and speed of computers\u2026artificial intelligence systems are now being built with hundreds of layers of digital neurons and very high-dimensional digital inputs and outputs.\u201d[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

I had to help one of my neighbors last Monday to excuse her jury duty. The changes in the system now required this Korean immigrant elder who didn\u2019t speak English to be excused from jury duty after logging into zoom orientation, which took 4 hrs before the excuse links were passed out. The digital revolution brought so many changes to the jury duty system. The old traditional way of selecting our jury for cases is now completely online. It gathered potential 200+ jurors into a zoom room, and many couldn\u2019t speak English, including my neighbor; many were old and weren\u2019t familiar with the latest digital platforms of zoom survey monkeys, and computers. Long story short, many frustrations and chaos were very present in the zoom room that arose from many different sources of problems of integrating the old system into the latest technologies, efforts of bridging the gap between the digital culture and languages into the global culture and languages that people are used to, and along with many technical issues and problems. This kind of frustration, chaos, and inequality is currently growing in different places in our society and on a global scale. Every church, every community, and every country is dealing with certain challenges of the digital revolution. And with every revolution comes challenges of inequality. As Dr. Sachs discussed, \u201ctechnological advances contain within them the seeds of rising inequality, as new technologies create winners and losers in the marketplace\u2026And now comes the digital economy, with even smarter machines and systems to do the tasks currently carried out by workers. Who will win, and who will lose?\u201d[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

Where is our future headed? He argues further that in this 21st<\/sup> century, tremendous economic growth has taken place all over the world on a global scale. But, \u201cit has also generated two stark results. First, inequalities of income and wealth are intense and increasing. Not only do we still have extreme poverty in the midst of global wealth, but we also have rising inequalities within rich societies that threaten to become much worse in the age of smart machines. Second, we have violated the planetary boundaries with human-induced climate change, loss of biodiversity, and pervasive pollution that threaten the well-being of billions of people and the survival of millions of species.\u201d[5]<\/a> I believe we have to consider those two points in our ministries and leadership. The upcoming 21st<\/sup> century will have to wrestle with solving issues that will deal with inequalities and changes in our global environment.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Jeffrey Sachs, The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions<\/em> (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020), 1.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Ibid, 2.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Ibid, 175.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Ibid, 185.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Ibid, 197.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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