While there are a few different conceptualizations of globalization, researchers seem to be in agreement that there are at least three dimensions of globalization: economic, political and cultural.
This conceptualization with its much broader scope, allows for the examination of a number of consequences of globalization, not just economic but social, cultural and political ones.
In a sense, what's happening is that Wolfram Language shiftsfrom concentrating on mechanics to concentrating on conceptualization, and the key to that conceptualization is broad computational thinking.