The Shrinking World theory is a concept developed to help explain how technology and infrastructure
have transformed people’s lives. For the last 200 years, human history has been dominated by
Attempts of understanding the sheer scale and interconnected nature of the world economy have
produced some of the world’s greatest thinkers, its most radical philosophers and scores of conflicting
The theoretical concept of the ‘butterfly effect’ is well known, it is the premise that small events can
have non-linear impacts on a complexed system. History is littered with examples of seemingly small
