5D. Summary:

Cities are the focal points of a global organism. You do not need to agree with the trajectory I have used to arrive at the Indian Ocean in order to recognize that it is a frontier of globalisation. The proposed growth and expansion of western civilization into this region is congruent with the historical development of globalisation. The nature of the urban organism is to grow until there is adequate distribution of cities in a specified region. Taken globally, when we survey the Indian Ocean, there emerge just a handful of western cities, all young and booming. While the Indian Ocean is not primitive, relative to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, economic development is juvenile. Keeping in mind the accelerating rate of development that comes with city generation gap, it is likely the Indian Ocean will experience even more rapid development than did the Pacific Ocean. In other words, this area will develop larger, faster as a result of unforeseen innovation and an already extensive global base of development.