Interesting premise, the rise of the internet and even globalisation has not created the global village that many people predicted it would.
At least this is the opinion of two researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, after studying names given to babies since 1995. They found naming trends tended to remain local rather global despite [...]
Babies names are not carried far and wide by the internet
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 3 July, 2009 to the trends subset
Our neighbours live in another city not another country
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 26 February, 2009 to the comment subset
The 19.20.21 project will study 19 “supercities” whose populations are projected to top 20 million inhabitants during the 21st century, and the impact this population growth will have on those centres.
But today people think of the world as a network of cities – not a network of countries. We visit London, Paris, or Rio de [...]
