With all our concerns about Trump, and the article on 8 European populist .. 10 if you include US and Brexit
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/05/world/europe/populism-in-age-of-trump.html .. I oddly got thinking about "our" kind of globalism: the Friam & WedTech lists, and open source Open Source Software and global communication. I daily chat with pioneers in tech fields, most of whom are not in my state or even my country .. if I can call it mine any more. And we get along just fine and the whole is greater than the some of its parts. I use GitHub to ask for an improvement in a software library. I use twitter to ask a question of a technologist. I store my data world wide, often which moves to be closer to the consumer. There are no walls, and there is a lot of cooperation. My world I guess is not Populist. I don't think that can be easily broken, but certainly Northern Korea has done it, as have some others. US? Don't most of us have the same experiences: Travel, co-workers, global facilities and so on? That at least is a ray of hope. -- Owen
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