Experimental Blog # 170

Quotations and notes from "The Electronic Silk Road" - How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce by Anupam Chander

"If an event in cyberspace occurs both "everywhere and nowhere" < >, whose law governs?"
"Despite public perception to the contrary, the United States actually exports far more services{counting both electronically mediated and other services} than it imports. The United States had a net surplus in commercial services trade of $187 billion in 2011, < > India imported < > almost as much as it exported < > in 2011 ..."

"Who makes the rules that govern the ways that Facebook connects a seventh of humanity < > a community of a billion people."
"More than 80 percent of Facebook users lie outside the United States." Does this mean that there are about 200 million users of Facebook in the USA?!

"Even while Chinese factories have made that country the capitol of outsourcing in manufacturing, China has greatly lagged India in the outsourcing of services."

"The desire to liberalize the flow of goods across borders in service of efficient production has at times been insufficiently attentive to the rights of workers and the health of the environment.

"Trade has made and remade the world for millennia. The addition of services to global trade will remake the world yet again."