Today in class, we went over some more of the asian map, and then continued watching the video. I had to leave early for a tennis game.
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.
6. What was the importance of Netscape going public on 8-9-95?
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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