Globalization is a new international system that has replaced the Cold War system. However, unless the world were made of just【M1】______ microchips and markets, you could probably rely on globalization to explain with almost everything. But, alas, the world is made of【M2】______ microchips and markets and men and women, with all their peculiar habits, traditions, longings and unpredictable aspirations. So world affairs today can only be explained as the interaction between what is as new as an Internet Web site and is as old as a gnarled olive tree on【M3】______ the banks of the river Jordan. I first started thinking about this while riding in a train in Japan in May 1992, eating a sushi box dinner and【M4】______ traveling at 180 miles per hour. I was in Tokyo on a reporting assignment and have arranged to【M5】______ visit the Lexus luxury car factory outside Toyota City, south of Tokyo. It was one of the most memorizing tours Ive ever taken.【M6】______ By that time, the factory was producing 300 Lexus sedans each day,【M7】______ made by 66 human beings and 310 robots. For that I could tell, the【M8】______ human beings were there mostly for quality control. Only a few of them were actually screwing in bolts or solder parts together. The robots were doing all the work. There were even robotic trucks that hauled materials around floor and could sense when a human was【M9】______ in his path and would "beep, beep, beep" at them to move. I【M10】______ was so impressed.
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