the Chinese in the US, Jews in different countries or the Portuguese in France). A diaspora is characterized by an internal need to integrate, act together, help one another and to share one vision of the future. This internal motivation has been recognized as a fundamental factor behind the success of a community. It has been observed that talks, discussions and attempts to convince one another will never lead to the level of involvement and commitment present in diasporas, where participation and activities are voluntary. ‘Death of distance’ causes diasporas to be increasingly extensive. One example is the Mexican diaspora where the distance between two members was “up to two phone calls” already 20 years ago. This means that a person in need who has called up the diaspora for help had to wait only two phone calls to find somebody who would be able to help. As a matter of fact, this very topic is already known to us, Poles. I am quite sure that you are familiar with the articles in the Polish press in the period from Poland's accession to the EU to the mid-2006. These articles lamented the fact that during this period more than a million people, mainly young Poles from the so-called PLN 1,200-gross-pay-generation, left Poland for other EU countries in search for work.
This is possible thanks to the communicator he keeps wearing, which is equipped with a video camera. One of their common passions is building a wooden boat in which they hope to go to the lake. They spend most of their time working on details and learning the wood processing technology by chatting through their communicators with other amateur boat builders from England, Canada and China, among other countries. Sailing is one of Global’s favourite sports, but not the only one he does. Global takes care of his health, which is under constant surveillance of an e-doctor. Global rarely falls ill, because he takes preventive measures displayed on his communicator in accordance with his preferences twice a month. Today, he got a text message reminding him that two months had elapsed since he last took his blood pressure. He confirms his willingness to be re-examined, and his watch takes his blood pressure and sends the result to the communicator, which automatically transmits the data to his edoctor. Everything is OK, but Global does not even notice this, because he is already engrossed in working on another issue – reducing the costs of building a city that 25 years ago was referred to as the knowledge city or intelligent city. It is simply a city that is comfortable for its citizens, a city where beauty and functionality go hand in hand, where life is easier and architecture fosters social life, a city where innovations are born and a city that attracts visitors.