I will readily agree that it is the sort of sweeping statement that can't be prooven right or wrong in any empirical sense. As I mentioned in the essay, there are certainly aspects of the things we lump under the rubric of globalization that can be controlled, specifically imports and exports of tangible goods. For all the neoliberal rhetoric of free trade, those are in fact being controlled for the benefit of specific interests. There certainly possible options for changing the ways those things are controlled.

 There is really nothing particularly new about this. Air transportation has increased the range and speed of international trade, but so did the steamship. However, it seems to be that telecommunications technology may be the new genie out of the bottle. The invention of the telegraph had an important on 19th C society and can be seen as a precursor of today's events, but it didn't really move jobs.