It has broken the information monopoly of the elites and nurtured new communities across borders.
Global elites — those with high income and educational levels, who live in capital cities — are considerably more enthusiastic about innovation than the general population, the FT/Qualcomm Essential Future survey found.
Yes, the east coast metropolitan elites have been offloading their striped cotton shirt-dresses, Hopewell Mini Chain Crossbody bags and Karita Lace-Up Block-Heel Sandals by the sackful.
They make you believe that if you do as they say, you can improve the quality of your life and join the elites.
Chinese and Russian elites sent their children to study in the US and UK.
between coastal elites and communities left behind by globalization.
Yet, the scars left by the crisis, which include diminished confidence in the probity and competence of the financial, intellectual and policymaking elites, also came on top of older ones.
Yet there are sufficient echoes to trouble America's besieged elites.
The great cities such as Samarkand, Mosul and Merv offered great commercial opportunities, thanks to their large, rich elites.
It is a sense, not wholly unwarranted, that it is a project carried out by elites for elites with little consideration for the interests of ordinary people — who see the globalisation agenda as being set by big companies playing off one country against another.
The economic elites, meanwhile, continue to embody a paradox: all the income gains that Keynes expected and more, but limited leisure.
Much of the time this underbelly is concealed; at least from people like me, fortunate to live among information-blessed urban elites who take reading skills for granted.
As Alderson sees it, his enemies are the elites who run the finances of the country –"the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent" who are "playing God without permission".
As well-educated elites of the society, university students will shoulder much greater responsibilities after graduation than others.
European countries excelled at first-rate education for the elites, but the United States led the way in mass education.
And while many more Americans attend college than in the past, most of the growth has occurred at colleges with relatively few resources and high dropout rates, which bear little resemblance to the elites.
Scientists and academics who want their work published in international journals have to adhere to the grammatical rules followed by the native English-speaking elites.
It has worked for years, but now even the elites are complaining about corruption and inequality.