Logged on, watching flat world video today.
No blog assignment this week.
Canada map test is on wednesday!
1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?
Flat World is when the world is geting so "technology" based. Communication is getting much faster with internet and a lot of things can be done via internet.
2. Briefly describe Globalization 1.0.
Globalization 1.0 from 1492 to the early eighteen hundreds.
-Countires globalization.
-Reason for power, natural resourses, etc.
-Shrunk from large to medium. (Opened the doors for people to become immigrants.)
-When they took over the new world.
-Columbus started the imperial age.
3. Briefly describe Globalization 2.0.
-Early eighteen hundreds to 2000.
-Medium to small.
-Spearheaded by companys globalization.
-Businesses going over seas.
-Japenese companys in China.
-McDonalds all over the world.
(Companys owned in one country but all over world.
-People sent over seas to work.
4. Briefly describe Globalization 3.0.
4. Briefly describe Globalization 3.0.
-2000 - present.
-Size small to tiny.
-Size small to tiny.
-Flattening the world while you were sleeping.
-This era is built on individual people globalizing.
-People located themseleves globally.
-Before you would sell to local town people and now you can sell to anyone in the country. (Shipping) (Internet is helping that happen)
-Ex: Ebay.
-Everyone globalizing themselves so you are now competing with everyone. World wide market place.
5. What was the Berlin Wall a flattener of the world?
5. What was the Berlin Wall a flattener of the world?
-11/9 when it came down.(Wall was there to seperate the city of Berlin. Cold war dominated society. Communism vs. Democracy -- free vs dimacratic.If from western part you do not go to communist countries and and that goes both ways. Two bashed heads and couldnt get along so it was impossiple for a flat world because two worlds couldnt get along to become one.)
-Because it made us see the world as a single flat plain.
-Eastern policies and Western policies but the wall was in the way.
-Walls came down, windows came up (gave us to look all together)
6. What was the importance of Netscape going public on 8-9-95?
-Netscape was the browser people used.
- from Mountain View, California.
- from Mountain View, California.
-Suddenly over night the world became flat.
-Thousands of miles away you can communicate with someone in seconds.
1) Gave us first commerical browser that made internet come alive. Different places could connect together.
2) Insursed that the Internet could be used by anyone.
3) Dot.com Boom.
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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