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China Research Laboratory
© 2006 IBM Corporation
Globalization
Honesty Young, Deputy Director, CTOIBM China Research Laboratory
China Research Laboratory
© 2006 IBM Corporation2 VLDB 2006
Globalization
Threat (危机 ) or opportunity (转机 )
Many aspects
– Economical, social, cultural, political, environmental, and technological
Freer movement of
– Goods, capital, knowledge, information, people, and technology
Enabled mostly by
– Reducing the cost of transaction/operation by 1 – 2 orders of magnitude through human innovation and technology progress• Communication bandwidth, containerization …• Organizations, legal systems, infrastructures …
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How a Genius May Work Globally?
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” - Thomas Edison
99% perspiration performing many experiments to validate ideas
– Less expensive to carry out experiments at higher PPP/nominal GDP regions Source: IMF
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Where Are the Knowledge Workers?% of World Nominal GDP
Others31.3%
BRIC10.3%
US28.1%
EU30.3%
% of College Students
Others36%
EU16%
BRIC33%
US15%
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An Inter-Dependent Globe
China's top 20 Trading Partners
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Source: China government statistics
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Implications
Gravitate to the norm and everyone benefits
Even thought not everyone can start something new and big, be the first one to know when a technology matures or will not be practical any time soon
– Make an informed decision
Ensure your solution scales with leading $/performance
– Globalization is mostly enabled by lowering the cost of providing the similar functions by orders of magnitude
Not a zero-sum game (principle of comparative advantage)
– Collaborate openly and globally when appropriate