Richard Dobbs, who has spent six years at the McKinsey Global Institute in Seoul, says it is the hardest-working McKinsey office in the world, "by an order of magnitude".
When the number of devices on the planet is no longer limited by the number of humans, it has the potential to raise the number of computers in the world by an order of magnitude, and that will force a change in the way we think about computing in the future.
In other words there is more "money" in the world, by an order of magnitude, than circulates at any economic moment.
One theory is that conservatives manage their anxiety by imposing an order on the world.
Pessimists would say that such an emergence of a new power had never been accommodated peacefully by an existing world order.
The idea, briefly entertained by American spokesmen, that the old bipolar order could be replaced by a "new world order" based on the single superpower which remained in being, and therefore looked stronger than ever, rapidly proved unrealistic.
When I read books like Peter Berger's Sacred Canopy, I agree with the idea that religion assists in helping the individual to combat the feeling of chaos by ordering the world around them.
The alternative today to a world ordered by American power is not some cuddly multipolar system — half-Sweden and half-heaven.
The moral, emotional and even fatal price women pay to seek their own fulfillment in a world ordered by the priorities of men is the fundamental issue the play explores.
But by knocking off several of the hard-earned, high-profile treaties on arms control and the environment, Mr. Bush has been subjected to outrage from some of America's closest friends -- who wonder what will replace a world ordered by treaties -- as well as its adversaries who see arrogance in Mr. Bush's actions.
