Thursday May 6 2010

We went over the middle east map.
1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?





2. Briefly describe Globalization 1.0.
the process of the world becoming smaller. 1492-early 1800 counrties globalized to get natural resources




3. Briefly describe Globalization 2.0.

early 1800-200 world went from medium to small companies all over the world



4. Briefly describe Globalization 3.0.
200-present small to tiny we globalized by using internet. With the internet people from china and get your stuff. unlike the previous globalization now any one can globalize before it was only the rich white men.




5. What was the Berlin Wall a flattener of the world?
the ten days that flattened the world is the 11 -9- 89 the day the berlin wall came down. the world was spilt between the east and west. when the berlin wall came down it was a symbol that the cold war ended so the world became one again. During the cold war it was like there were to worlds.




6. What was the importance of Netscape going public on 8-9-95?
This was when netscape was released. It was the broser that brought the internet alive so any one could use it. It brought people from all over the world together. It trigures the .com boom. The world got much smaller. If something happened in China we knew about it really quick. No one wouold own the internet. At the price of $28. It allows people to live in Florida and work for a company anywhere else.




7. What is outsourcing/offshoring and why are many Americans opposed to it?
offshoring is when a company will close a company in harlan but one it in China cause its cheaper.




8. Give two examples of “open-sourcing"?
some people hate microsoft because they charge so much when some people could do it better for free. Any one can add to wikipeda.



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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