Quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Thomas L. Friedman on Globalization:

"It is the inexorable integration of markets, nation-states and technologies to a degree never witnessed before-in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper, cheaper than ever before, and in a way that is enabling the world to reach in the world to reach into individuals, corporations, and nation-states farther, faster, deeper,  cheaper than ever before"