Today in class we had ten minutes to study the Asian map for ten minutes. Our quiz will be a week from monday. This monday will be a work day because Mr. Bruns will be gone. Our African projects will be due a week from wednesday? Then we continued watching the moive.
1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?
Where technology is so advanced, that everybody all over the world is competeing for the same jobs, because they're able to do jobs in other countries with newer technology.
2. Briefly describe Globalization 1.0.
Lasted from 1492 to early eighteen hundreds, shurnk the world from large to medium. It happend through their countries globalizing, for power and natural resources.
3. Briefly describe Globalization 2.0.
From early eighteen hundres to two thousand. Made the world shrink to size small. Happened from companies globalizing. Buisnesses all over the world can be controlled by one country.
4. Briefly describe Globalization 3.0.
Shrank world from size small to tiny, and flattened our economy. It's built around individuals and small groups globalizing. It's built around individuals and small groups of all diffrent kinds of people, rather than the white male who had lead in the other two. Took place 2000 to present.
5. What was the Berlin Wall a flattener of the world?
When it came down, it aloud us to see the world as a flat plane. A 'wall' was gone that was seperating the world.
6. What was the importance of Netscape going public on 8-9-95?
It opened internet up to the world, so that not just important people who needed it to research items, able to get on and connect with eachother, and find information about anything they wanted to. It made people closer together and the world 'smaller'.
7. What is outsourcing/offshoring and why are many Americans opposed to it?
When a companie shuts down in one countrie and opens again in anther becuase it's cheaper there. People lose their jobs.
8. Give two examples of “open-sourcing”.
Linnex, Moxilla Firefox, and Wikipedia.
9. What does Friedman mean by “informing”?
Your a problem solver and can figure things out on your own. 'being a problem solver'
10. What are the “steroids” according to Friedman?
Wireless, voice over the internet, and file sharing. Being able to be connected to the internet anywhere. Always being connected. It's supercharged all the other flatteners.
11. According to Friedman, how do people need to change in the future to succeed in a “flat world”?
Horozontalize yourself. Be able to adapt yourself to the changes. Be responsible for your own learning.
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.
Flat world deffinition according to freedman: A global web-enabled platform for multiple forms of sharing knowledge and work irrespective of time, distance, geography, and even language.
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