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Technology, the Internet, and Culture. Technological advances are key determinant of culture and cultural change-more leisure time, and computers, multimedia, and communications systems converge national cultures. The death of cultural distance
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Technology, the Internet, and Culture • Technological advances are key determinant of culture and cultural change-more leisure time, and computers, multimedia, and communications systems converge national cultures. • The death of cultural distance • the demise of the boundaries that once separated people, due to integrating effects of modern communications, information, and transportation technologies • If they stop, integration stops • But, hey, who thinks they are going to stop? • “Culture” has fewer and fewer manifest boundaries, stronger and stronger latent standards. • National Culture fades, Globalization accelerates • People are Happy