It is increasingly difficult to find examples of warfare that are unaffected by globalization. - George Ritzer

What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.

Marx's insight of a century-and-a-half ago was not only highly prescient, but is far truer today than in Marx's day.

While the US was hegemonic in the era of geopolitics, it is greatly weakened as globalization competes with, and gains ascendancy over, geopolitics.