A compelling look at the powerful global forces that will cause billions of us to move
geographically over the next thirty years ushering in an era of radical change. In the 60 000
years since people began colonizing the continents a recurring feature of human civilization
has been mobility. History is brimming with seismic global events-pandemics and plagues wars
and genocides. Each time after a great catastrophe our instincts to seek physical security
compel us to move. The map of humanity isn't settled-not now not ever. The last century
provides continuing evidence that we are in the most dangerous experiment humanity has ever
experienced. As climates change pandemics arrive and economies rise and fall which areas
will people flee from and where will they resettle? Which countries will accept or reject them?
How will the billions alive today and the billions coming create the next map of human
geography? Now global strategy advisor Parag Khanna expands on his TED Talks about mapping the
future with this illuminating and authoritative vision of the next civilization. He explains
how the past two major shifts-one agricultural and the other industrial-have led us to the cusp
of the next one which must be mobile and sustainable. Across the world we must move people to
where the resources are and technologies to the people who need them. Igniting this
accelerating mobility are five primary forces: demographic imbalances (young people flocking to
new regions) economic dislocation (flight to where the jobs are) technological disruption
political upheaval and climate change. Move is a fascinating and enlightening look at the
climate of migration revealing the deep trends that will shape the grand economic and security
scenarios of the future. Most importantly it offers us a chance to identify our location on
humanity's ever-changing map.
