An investigation of globalization, the most significant socioeconomic trend in the world today, and how it is affecting everything we do-economically, politically, and culturally-abroad and at home.

"Newly updated and expanded edition"--Cover. Originally published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1999. Includes index. Included in the U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List, 2004. "Newly updated and expanded edition"--Front cover. Originally published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, Ã1999.

Opening scene, The world is ten years old -- Seeing the system: New system -- Information arbitrage -- Lexus and the olive tree -- ... And the walls came tumbling down -- Microchip immune deficiency -- Golden straitjacket -- Electronic herd -- Plugging into the system: DOScapital 6.0 -- Globalution -- Shapers, adapters and other new ways of thinking about power -- Buy Taiwan, hold Italy, sell France -- Golden arches theory of conflict prevention -- Demolition man -- Winners take all -- Backlash against the system: Backlash -- Groundswell -- America and the system: Rational exuberance -- Revolution is U.S. -- If you want to speak to a human being, press 1 -- There is a way forward.