Comemorou-se, na passada semana, o 529º aniversário da passagem do Cabo das Tormentas pelo navegador português Bartolomeu Dias (3 de fevereiro de 1488). Entre esta data e a passagem do Cabo Bojador por Gil Eanes (1434), passaram longos – mesmo à nossa noção de tempo atual – cinquenta e quatro anos.
“The bigger the world economy the more powerful its smallest players” “The entrepreneur is also the most important player in the building of the global economy.” “E-mail is a tribe-maker. Eletronics makes us more tribal at the same time it globalizes us” “The deployment of power is shifting from the state to the individual. From vertical to horizontal. From hierarchy to networking. Power is flowing in all directions - unpredictable, a little chaotic, certainly messy - not well ordered like hierarchical, top-down arrangements.” “The global paradox”, 1994, John Naisbitt