The relationship of reading ICT to opportunity structure: An object of study?

[B]y the 1990s…[globalization] had already transformed not only certain economic and technical activities, and the operations of science, but important aspects of private life, mainly by the unimaginable acceleration of communication and transport. Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the end of the twentieth century is the tension between this accelerating process of globalization and the inability of both public institutions and the collective behavior of human beings to come to terms with it.(Hobsbawm, 1994, p. 15)