#reverse globalization

The Rush to Global Is Over

For most of my adult life, the globalization of everything was taken for granted.

We talked of “world economy,” localization, internationalization (aka I18N), and globalization. Indeed, almost every RFP for the last 20 years has asked about internationalization and localization and multiple currencies.

Yet, beginning in about 1997, a lone voice warned us that the march toward globalization would…