Today we'll be considering whether globalization is a good thing, and along the way we'll try to do something that you may not be used to doing in history classes, imagining the future. Mr. Green! Mr. Green! In the future, I'm going to get to second base with Molly Brown. No, you won't, Me From the Past. But the fact that when asked to imagine the future, you imagine your future, says a lot about the contemporary world. And listen, Me From the Past, while there's no question that your solipsistic individualism is bad both for you and for our species, the broader implications of individualism in general are a lot more complex.