Really interesting thread.
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I love reading history and am currently shuttling between two books: this one and this. They both seem very good as far as I've read.
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Thanks for reminding me to put "The Swerve" on wish list.
What's intersting,especuially for a cience fiction reader, is the fact that thatthe rest of world is rapidly sharing in technological advances that once thappened only in the West.
Think of the space race. It was once a two horse race and the SF of the 60s could not concieve of it any other way. As a minority person reading SF, it appeared that people of color would not even make it to the future .
Now hell, it could be a four horse race-the USA, the EU, China and India. The first starship could be the ISS Krishna!
I think in the past, revolutions only in one country or region. Today, there is no question that we are living in an era of globalization, where the whole world shares in change-whether technological, economic or political . Indeed, if there are any historians to look back on the present era, they will most likely call it the Age of Globalization.