While physical separation is becoming less important with the universal implementation of communication technology, cultural distance becomes more and more significant as we increasingly work together with people of different backgrounds. Bridging those differences will become more and more crucial to success economically, socially, and politically.
"While the post-geographic world has made it possible for far-flung workers to collaborate like neighbors, there are challenges. Your Shanghai team members may be waking up just as the Chicago-based folks are going home--and London may need you online at 3 a.m. The result is a day that could conceivably span 24 hours, if the limits of human biology didn’t kick in. People must learn to work to the ebb and flow of their own schedule--and reach out in new ways. Though geography may have become less relevant, the need for community never goes away."
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