ON HYBRID REALITIES AND CONNECTOGRAPHY

Born in India and educated in three continents, Parag Khanna is a cosmopolitan globetrotter with a roving sensor and an analytical mind to spot and then transform disparate data into strategic visions and bestselling books. When he is not on the news or scouting around the world in search of new trends and big ideas he keeps busy lecturing in the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, in Singapore. Together wish his wife, Ayesha, he was also a co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, envisioning the co-evolution of humans and technology as a challenge and opportunity rather than a threat. One of the editors of TGSM met him in Madrid in 2009 when he was presenting the Spanish edition of an earlier essay – The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order- at the Rafael del Pino Foundation. Eight years and several thousand miles later, the author is introducing another of his successful books to a Spanish-speaking audience: Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilisation (recently published in Spanish by Planeta de los Libros). TGSM converses with Parag Khanna about his current and future projects:

—LIKE US, you love maps and it shows in your books. In Connectography maps based on political geography are superseded by functional maps showing