ABSTRACT
No longer! From the price of steel in Hamburg to the quality of software in Silicon Valley or the balance of power in Khartoum, the emergence of China and India is being felt around the world. While commentators have compared their rise to the end of the cold war, the more apt analogies are less recent: civilization-changing events such as the rise of the Roman Empire or the discovery of the New World. And even those
are pale historical comparisons since they touched only a fraction of the human populations of their day.
