As a matter of survival, people need to be aware of the implications of perspectives that they do not themselves have. Globalization requires ordinary people, everywhere, to adapt to multiple perspectives simultaneously, even when they conflict with one another. We are not just running faster in order to stay in one place, we are running to stay where we are in more and more places, all at the same time. Globalization demands topic mapping for many reasons, but perhaps most compellingly because no other approach can show us where we are in multiple independent universes simultaneously.