History has not ended, geography is not yet dead. Or at least, it is not easy to determine these things. Endings or death are never a single full stop, and they never appear unexpectedly.

The old map of the world is indeed no longer valid: some of the huge unions (Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia) have split apart and almost dispersed. Seeing the way that capital is amassed and circulated every second via the hyper-busy cyber hi