Today we finished our video called the flat world. Then we had blog discussion. Our rep is Steve king. Our 2 senators are Charles Grassley-dem.and Tom Harkin-repb.
1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?
IT IS WHERE YOU CAN BE HIRED FOR A JOB AND NOT EVEN LIVE IN THAT COUNTRY. SO A PERSON IS IN INDIA, THEY CAN BE HIRED IN THE U.S. FOR A JOB.
2. Briefly describe Globalization 1.0.
shrunk the world from the size large to a size medium.
1492 to early countries globalized
2.0.
went global through their company.
size medium to size small.
people sent over seas to work
3.0
size small to tiny
indivdual globalization
2000 to present a world wide market place.
What was the Berlin Wall a flattener of the world?
allowed the world to see and think of the world as a singal flat plain.
What was the importance of Netscape going public?
gave us the first commercial browser brought the internet alive.
.com boom
insured that the internet could be used by everybody
what is outsourcing/offshoring and why many americans opposed it?
a new from of colaberation. offshoring is moving to a new place.
two examples of open sourcing.
calaboration, firefox wikipedia
What does Friedman mean by informing?
search colaborate with data by yourself.
What are the steroids according to Friedman?
wireless voice over the internet and file sharing.global web enabled platform for mulitple forms of sharing knowledge and work irespective of time distance and technology.
How do people need to change in the future to succeed in a flat world?
Become horizontal and be ready to change.
Why should young people be concerned with the flat world?
because their jobs are going to be takin by people from other countries.
Define what Friedman means by the flat world now that you watched the video?
People are starting to globalize, and have a lot of work of the internet. Like people in india can be working at a mcdonalds in the U.S. So the world is becoming flat because of that.
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