Our technologies enable us to find and collaborate with people with whom we share common interests around the world.  But, at the same time, they are also sharpening our differences.  Rather than globalists, we are becoming increasingly localists or tribal, based on affinities which may involve people from around the world

Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Towards a hyperconnected, digital economy

With the digital economy, we are seeing a shift from global expansion and world-unifying ambitions (globalism) to local concerns and direct involvement (localism)