Tuesday, March 5

We watched the flat world video and I had to leave early because of our soccer game.
1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?

2. Briefly describe Globalization 1.0.

3. Briefly describe Globalization 2.0.

4. Briefly describe Globalization 3.0.

5. What was the Berlin Wall a flattener of the world?

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”?
Searching.

10. What are the “steroids” according to Friedman?
wireless, voice-over the internet, and file sharing. 

11. According to Friedman, how do people need to change in the future to succeed in a “flat world”?
Adapt to new technologies and lifestyles.

12. Why should young people be concerned with the “flat world”?
Younger people are growing up in a flat world and they don't even know it's flat.

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, irrespective of time, distance, geography and language.
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