What is wrong with Sparks?

After reading the elaborated article of Colin Sparks called “What ‘s wrong with globalization”, I asked myself What is wrong with Sparks’ article?
It is difficult for me to answer such a question, especially if I liked and appreciated many of his arguments but, at the same time, I have the feeling that he degraded too much the concept of globalization, which it has been a great help in order to understand the new realities that brought to us the revolution of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs).
He concluded his article with the following comment “A theory that is blind to such a facts is blind to reality”, when mentioning that the internet it is not global in reality because “a quarter of the world’s population, more than one and quarter billion people, are today without any access to electricity, and that number will rise over the next 25 years. No electricity, no internet.”
Such statement looks demagogic to me if we accept the following definition of globalization “widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of social life“. Let me explain myself. The use of the terms “widening, deepening and speeding” means increasing and gradation. And such a definition let us understand that globalization is a trend that shows us the direction in which interconnectedness is moving in the diverse aspects of social life.
The concept of globalization is defining a trend and because does not reflect and absolute knowledge or absolute explanation and comprehension of the phenomena that is trying to describe, does not means that is “blind to reality”. By the way, if we analyze with maturity any theory, we suppose to understand that it is a good chance that, as many theories, will be a simplification of reality but useful to understand better a given fact. There is an expression that says “the map is not the territory”, but it is fact that –even if it is not detailed and tridimensional – the helps to understand the terrain that is representing it.
However, It is important to says that I am agree with Colin Sparks in his critics to the flows of “the theories of globalizations that obscures central aspects of contemporary reality” but without the extreme position of saying that globalization theory is “blind to reality” because has “flows” that are not fundamental in his effectiveness to give us better understanding of a given reality. By the way, there is challenge there. Explain the theory of globalization with more nuances and richness in a way that give us more satisfaction.
Agustin Fornell