And so here we can make out a new system of global trade. Gone will be the world of poor countries manufacturing goods for rich countries, and shipping these products across the world. Instead, each rich country will begin to make its own goods at home, for a domestic market. But as ever in the Exponential Age, the rewards of new technology are not evenly distributed. The diminishing dependence of rich countries on poor countries’ commodities may fundamentally destabilise the economies of much of the developing world.
