Behind many of my ideas lies the vision of unprecedently powerful tools for multinational small biz: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/multi.small.html … Transport costs are lower, English has become standard, and comm costs have plummeted, leaving politics increasingly the dominant cost of cross-border biz.
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There’s also “self-inflicted protectionism”. During a recent trip abroad I was astonished at how many things I couldn’t do online. Some because I was “accessing from outside North America”. Others because I lacked a local credit card and phone number.
Poor social scalability -- confining one's business to localities when communications, and most potential suppliers and customers, are global.
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