Internet- the digital world

Identify and describe one technoscience that is crucial to the support of a "Global City" as Saskia Sassen defines it. In a following paragraph (not in list form, but as an argument) discuss various catalysts and corrosions of that technoscience to the function of a Global City.

One technoscience that is crucial to the support of a "Global City" is the internet, the digital super-highway that coexists with our actual living space. Cyber space and our everyday life in the cities are becoming more and more intertwined, whether it be logging numbers on Wall Street, finding a place to eat by use of an iPhone, or just browsing the internet for potential dates on Match.com. As Sassen states cities have always been at major, often worldwide, processes. The internet has increased the complexity, intensity and global span of these networks- everyone is connected together in a city like never before, everyone is being watched on the cyber network (by use of cameras throughout the city, for instance.) Another catalyst of the technoscience in the function of a global city is that we are losing touch with ourselves, instead dealing primarily with a global market instead of the people that we see around us in our particular city. Outsourcing, dealing with other economies to get around labor laws, Nike running sweatshops in 3rd world countries are all negativites that arise from a global city, where people across the world are making my shoes from scratch, instead of workers in this country. This interconnectivity that the internet has brought us could eventually bring our world to the similarity of a machine- everyone working together to get a job done. The internet has the possibility of erasing all notions of 3rd world countries, an incredible catalyst for bringing together cities into a truly global city: one city. In conclusion, the internet has catalysts and corrosions on both sides, it all depends on if you view the glass as half-full or half-empty. The internet has created jobs for people all over the world, but it has also taken jobs away from Americans. The internet has bypassed geographic obstacles to creating a "global city", only in time will Earth become more intertwined with every human on this planet into a true "global city."