There is an emergent power . . .

“There is an emergent power in people whose shared experiences are more to each other than to their local context and their local governments. I think that's basically true," [ former Google CEO Eric] Schmidt told me. “The people you're describing see themselves as global citizens first. That's a relatively new phenomenon. So, while they're certainly patriotic about their countries and patriotic about where they grew up, and they love their mothers and so forth . . .  they see themselves as global citizens. And so, when something happens in the world that's bad, it bothers them."

Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. (New York: Penguin Books, 2012), 60.