The speech given by Tom Friedman in regards to the “ten flatteners” of the world really opened my eyes and had me think about technology from the past and in present day. He talked about how far our advancements have come, allowing people to virtually connect with just about anyone around the world. The more that he broke down his ten theories the more they began to make sense. The world truly can be perceived as flat because with the way technology has advanced and allowing people to connect almost instantly. Throughout Tom’s speech he gives us an insight to all ten flatteners that have unconventionally advanced our world to what it has become today.
August 9th, 1995 in Mountain View California when a little startup company called Netscape went public with a new invention they had created. They were one of the most important “flatteners” for three reasons. One of which was they truly gave us the internet that we have today, they truly brought the internet “alive” allowing us to illustrate on computer screens all the information locked inside websites. Netscape made it so that not website could solely dominate the internet. They also had the over investment of fiber optic cable in five years, that over investment over sea and over land brought down the cost of transmitting lines, practically making it free. Every company knew they need to lay fibrotic cable because the demand for it was going to “infinite” This brought people to people connectivity to a whole other level.
The second flattener that I chose was flattener number six, according to Friedman On December 11, 2001, China formally joined the World Trade Organization, which meant Beijing agreed to follow the same global rules governing exports, imports, and foreign investments that most countries were following. Since China joined the World Trade Organization, both china and the rest of the world are working at a considerably greater pace.
Pedro Villegas
ReplyDeleteTom Friedman's the world is flat
I also believe that Tom Friedman's theory that China formally joined the world trade organization is the second most important flattener as well which events Beijing agreed to follow the same global rules governing exports imports and foreign investments that most countries would follow. This allowed us trade with China and lower the costs of manufacturing and lower the cost of goods sold. Another Tom Friedman the world is flat idea that I believe was important was this invention of apps working together without that computer would be really relatively hard to use, people would like it and everyone would be worried about what kind of computer you had an communication would be harder. Also they would be a level playing field in the world today of the world technically would be flat according to Tom Friedman in conclusion the most important flattener would have to be the invention of Netscape