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