Today we went over the canada map again i got to make sure i study for that. We are going to continue the video we started watching last week and doing the questions that go with it.
Questions:
1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?
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2. Briefly describe Globalization 1.0.
-1492 to early 1800s
-made the world from size large to size medium and then to tiny
3. Briefly describe Globalization 2.0.
4. Briefly describe Globalization 3.0.
-to size small to size teeny
5. What was the Berlin Wall a flattener of the world?
- the wall fell down and the fall made everyone think that the world was a flat plain
- it was splitting the east from the west
- you basicly had to worlds the communist world and the democratic world
- after the wall fell down it was a symbol that the cold war was coming to an end
6. What was the importance of Netscape going public on 8-9-95?
-one of the most importand days in globalization
-netscape is a huge flattener
- brought the internet alive
-it was a way people from one place could connect with another
- it triggered the .com boom then the .com bubble
- it went public on this date for a price of $28
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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