# The Global Empire The second of three books in *The Futurica Trilogy* by Bard & Söderqvist with a focus on The Internet Age's new, built-in, integrated worldview and self-image. The Global Empire is the idea of how a divided world is interconnected by a single, increasingly centralized communication platform -- that is: The Internet -- and a constantly growing, interacting, collective intelligence. The phenomenon is also called *technological imperialism*, which can be put in relation to sociological nationalism and psychological tribalism.