Second Pillar of Globalization: The Massive Transportation Systems and the Development of Information Communication Technologies (ICT’s)

admin    3/15/2020    Globalization , Information Communication Technologies , Transportation Systems    Comment   

The second pillar of Globalization is the development of massive transportation systems and the development of information communication technologies (ICT’s) mechanisms resulting in the use of advanced hard technologies (hardware) and soft technologies (software). The massive transportation systems and ICT’s sector uses technological innovative tools such as large massive, heavy, and powerful transportation systems (large airplanes, fast trains, heavy ships, and long highways), Internet services (Web), sophisticated software and hardware systems, satellite T.V., GPS, and satellite

mobile phone systems. These tansportion abd ICT’s enable quick accessibility to people mobility and information exchange and hence, easier people and business interconnectivity. The present advances in the massive transportation systems and technologies have come a long way since the third industrial revolution (internet, energy, and new financial systems). With advanced massive transportation systems and technologies, new Research & Development (R&D) systems, methods, models, and tools emerged, which in turns led to expansion in the centralization of world production (the largest manufacturing center of the world as China) and business (free trade promoted by U.S.) However, the above benefits of massive transportation systems and ICT’s revolution are mainly enjoyed by developed countries and less proportion for developing countries. This observations are based on the high concentration of production, massive manufacturing, better income distribution, large infrastructure projects, sufisticated technologies, opportunity of low and high qualified jobs, amongst developed countries. Therefore, developing and least developed countries continue to be highly dependent on developed countries under the scheme of high dependency on the high raw materials demand and cheap labor for their manufacturing and consumption goods needs.

However, the role of Massive Transportation Systems and the Development of Information Communication Technologies (ICT’s) play an crucial role to support any massive contagious epidemic diseases crisis such as Wuhan-COVID-19 through the mobilization and communication of masses in case of a possible massive quarantine. Recently, we can observe in the case of Wuhan-COVIN-19 that the major contagious cases are originated from massive transportation systems especially airplanes and transoceanic cruises that many people can expose easily to any virus subsenquently. This research proposes a basic premise that the present massive transportation systems are highly responsible of the fast spread of massive contagious epidemic diseases globally. The best example is the fast spread of Wuhan-COVID-19 infected cases worldwide can show an exponential behavior, it is originated from the large number of flights connections and the size of airplanes that can carry a large number of passangers anytime and anywhere. In the case of transatlantic cruises can show more large number of Wuhan-COVID-19 infected victims than any massive transportation system. In fact, the massive transportation systems are responsible of the masive global tourism expansion and inter-continetal labor mobility easily and effciently. At the same time, the masive global tourism expansion and inter-continetal labor mobility makes of our world more vulnerable to get any massive contagious diseases epidemic faster than before.