Globalization is the process of international integration (＿＿（39）＿＿) from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. Advances in transportation and telecommunications (＿＿（40）＿＿) are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of (＿＿（41）＿＿) and cultural activities. The (＿＿（42）＿＿) of electronic communications, most notably mobile phones and the Internet, connected billions of people in new ways. Thus, as professor Robertson defined, globalization is referred to as "the (＿＿（43）＿＿) of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole."