Happy April Fools Day! (:
You should try out Google Motion. ;D it's amazing. Ahaha.
Mr. Bruns is going to play the Charlie Sheen song for me. (: Yay! Winning like tinky winky's purse!!!!!! Wooopie!
Going over the cnn website, looking at the current events, not very much new stuff.
Gone yesterday. For Track.
1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?
The world has been flattened to make it equal for everyone. Like, Technology. Technology has pretty much made it flattened. It opens the doors for a lot of people
2. Briefly describe Globalization 1.0.
1492-1800's - shrunk the world from size large, to size medium. you went global through your country. Countries going global for reasons of power, purism, etc.
3. Briefly describe Globalization 2.0.
1800's-2000 - Shrunk from size medium to size small. Spear-headed by companies going global. you went global by your company.
4. Briefly describe Globalization 3.0.
2000-present -Shrinking the world from size small, to tiny. It's built around the people globalizing. Individuals and small group. In which the individuals must locate themselves globally. It's not going to be built exclusivly around white males, but about individual's of all colours of the rainbow.
5. Was the Berlin Wall a flattener of the world?
When the Berlin Wall came down, yes it was. It allowed us to see the world as a single, flat plane. The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the world being two parts of the world : communism and democracy. When the wall came down, we lost that sense of a split world. So the world became one. One single plan. It allowed the world to become flatter.
6. What was the importance of Netscape going public on 8-9-95?
Netscape was a browser that everyone used. It was the day the interwebs went public for almost everyone in the US.
7. What is outsourcing/offshoring and why are many Americans opposed to it?
8. Give two examples of “open-sourcing”.
9. What does Friedman mean by “informing”?
10. What are the “steroids” according to Friedman?
11. According to Friedman, how do people need to change in the future to succeed in a “flat world”?
12. Why should young people be concerned with the “flat world”?
13. Define what Friedman means by the “flat world” now that you watched the video.
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