The Berlin Wall collapses ushering in an entirely new Era with unfamiliar rules and a wide open political and economic architecture that is increasingly defined by the shock of rapid technological change throughout the 1990s. From the newly negotiated Free Trade Agreements and Emerging Markets opening to private investment, to a rapidly changing balance of power in banking favouring investment in new ideas in internet and high tech- the 1990s has become a revolutionary decade not only defining business, financial and economic relations, but affecting social and broader national interests.