Richard Balwin presenting “The Great Convergence- Information Technology and the New Globalization”
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
Summary by Adrian Vatovec
Speaker: Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
Date: Thursday, 9 March 2017
Venue: The Science Exchange, 55 Exchange Place, Adelaide
Presented by: The EU Centre for Global Affairs at The University of Adelaide
Keypoints:
– knowledge crossing borders
– globalisation is unstoppable because of development of telepresence and telerobotics
– professional services will be moving from low wage countries to high wage countries because of technology (eg telepresence and telerobotics). For Example, a surgeon in the Philippines (low wage country) will be able through telerobotics perform an operation on a patient in the USA (high wage country).
– Richard Baldwin has done some consulting work for Governor Bostjan Jazbec/ Bank of Slovenia.
Richard Baldwin