In Globalization 1. 0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2. 0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3. 0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris. Of these were the art of writing and of printing, the discovery of America, and the introduction of patent laws. The date of the first. . . is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly-the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.
I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.
