1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?
All the countries are leved, they all are "equal"
2. Briefly describe Globalization 1.0.
Countries were after money
3. Briefly describe Globalization 2.0.
1800's-2000
now size small
Went global though your company
4. Briefly describe Globalization 3.0.
World now size XS
This era is about individuals globalizing and small group globalizing
5. What was the Berlin Wall a flattener of the world?
11-9-89
The fall of the wall is a great flattener
There is no longer the Commie. side and the free side just a world a single plane
6. What was the importance of Netscape going public on 8-9-95?
first public internet browser/ it brought the internet alive investment in fiber optic cable in oceans and over land made tokyo and mariland next door neighbors people are able to collaborate with more people doing more stuff than ever before
7. What is outsourcing/offshoring and why are many Americans opposed to it?
half of jobs sent sending a factory over seas.
8. Give two examples of “open-sourcing”.
new form of collaboration and inovation
linex
9. What does Friedman mean by “informing”?
Searching
10. What are the “steroids” according to Friedman?
Wireless, voice over the internet and filesharing
11. According to Friedman, how do people need to change in the future to succeed in a “flat world”?
they need to horizontalize themselves.
12. Why should young people be concerned with the “flat world”?
there is no such thing as an american job and americans youth won't have jobs if no one tells them about the flat world because people will start to send more of their jobs over seas.
13. Define what Friedman means by the “flat world” now that you watched the video.
we have created a global web enabled platform with multiple forms of sharing knowledge and work around of the world irrespective of time distance geography and language.
Test on thursday.
blog assignment---
Iran Nuclear program!!!!!!!!!!
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