“I’ve said that globalization is primarily a technological development, but it has no fixed end-point, no predetermined end-point. It doesn’t tend to yield a single type of economic system throughout the world. One of the reasons for that is that these technological processes which make up globalization and which are very powerful interacted every part of that development with political and cultural and religious and ethnic and other factors, including environmental factors.”

John Gray, political philosopher, author and Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics