In this chapter, Thomas Friedman looks at how cultures and societies will have to deal with and adapt to the changes that globalization brings to the way of doing business. It affects whole companies and individuals. He gives the perception of the world is flattening by comparing the Industrial Revolution to the IT Revolution that is happening right now. The flattening process was identified by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in the Communist Manifesto, published in 1848. Marx’s writings about capitalism state “the inexorable march of technology and capital to remove all barriers, boundaries, frictions, and restraints to global commerce (Friedman 234).”…
This is a presentation about Tom Friedman’s book, called The World is Flat. Tom Friedman is a New York Times reporter and columnist who has won three Pulitzer Prizes and has had four or five bestselling books out. He gets some criticism for this book because some people think he’s a cheerleader for Globalization, and those people who are against Globalization don’t particularly like that. I think, in all fairness to Tom, although he’s very enthusiastic about his book and his subject, I think he just recognizes that, like it or not, Globalization is here, and here to stay. So maybe we need to understand it and figure out what we need to do about it, whether we think it’s good, or bad.…
Insure you cite your sources and refer to page numbers (you should have at least two additional sources besides the primary book you read). Organize your paper with respect to the five points above. Books should be read by July 1st with an outline of its main points submitted by July 1st to the teacher via email. jackson_head@gwinnett.k12.ga.us or garin_berry@gwinnett.k12.ga.us…
Friedman, T. L (2005) The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.…
Friedman gets excited because the flattening of the world means that we as people who inhabit Earth are collecting all of our knowledge and putting it together into this worldwide network. By doing this we would start to emerge ourselves in an era of prosperity, innovation, and collaboration, by company’s communities, and individuals. Friedman states that is if terrorism and politics do not get in the way. The flattening of the world also fills him with dread both on a personal and professional level. On a more personal level it fills him with dread because with this flat world it not only opens up the playing field for the “software writers and computer geeks” to connect with each other in the workplace, but also opens up opportunities for the AL-Qaeda and many terrorist networks. Everything is being leveled to where anyone can very easily become empowered.…
Friedman, T. (2005). The world is flat: a brief history of the globalized world in the 21st century. London, : Penguin Books.…
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman is best described as an exposé of the realities of the present day business world and of the effects that certain advances in technology as well as political upheavals have had on capitalism during the past three decades. The “flattening” of the world is a metaphor used to describe an increasing interconnectivity among the citizens of the world. This increase in interconnectivity is ascribed to several events such as the fall of the Berlin wall, and most prominently, the advent of the internet. The point is stressed that for companies to survive in today’s environment, they must keep pace with the constant advances in technology that are making previous ways of doing business no longer competitive.…
A main point of this speech by Friedman is that what can be done will be done. What he means by this is the way the world works today, if you or somebody can think up some type of idea the technology and tools that are available to us today it will happen. He also touches on if you have a type of idea or plan act upon it as fast as you can because either you do it or someone else will and you will have to remember that for the rest of your life. I would almost call today’s economic society today a “dog eat dog” world. This how people should start thinking, it is a very optimistic thought and I think it’s what America needs.…
4. Despite global media attention, protests, and boycotts, many governments around the world continue to commit and tolerate human rights abuses. How could the U.S. government help address this problem?…
The end of the Cold War in the early 1990s has had a dual impact on international relations. On the one hand, the Soviet military withdrawal from Eastern Europe and the Third World brought an end to the Cold War, allowed democratization to proceed in many states previously ruled by Marxist dictatorships, and led to significant progress in resolving several Third World conflicts that had become prolonged during the Cold War. The reduction in East-West tension also resulted in a great decrease in inter-state conflicts, some of which occurred due to the superpower ideological rivalry during the Cold War. Even it became fashionable to argue that force, used here as military power, has run its course in international politics. Defense budgets in many parts of the world radically decreased. This trend, despite very few contrary examples (for instance China), appears to holding.…
Q: What did Thomas Friedman believe happened to the world because of the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts?…
saw this as an opportunity to make their own money and people saw this as a way to…
Industrial-Technological Revolutions: I – Subsistence farming Manufacturing (Division of labor) II – Mass production (Rise of machines) III – Services & information (Artificial intelligence) Industrial Revolution I - 18th – 19th century (1750~1850) - Steam engines Pumps for coal mines - Manufacturing Division of labor Specialization Increase efficiency ‘Cottage industries’ KIV: Trading - Train transport (e.g. Steam train), heavy industries - Rise of the middle classes Political movements, workers’ unions, etc. Upper class: Landowners, Factory owners, Nobility Middle class: Derive income from manufacturing & providing services (other than farming)…
Europe’s location on the Atlantic- Europe’s location on the Atlantic Ocean was very important because of two key factors. One, being that they were located on water, and could get the goods across the sea as fast as possible. Two,…
Globalization has become more widespread due to advances in information technology. The foundation of information technology is the internet, which produced the World Wide Web, and is one of the greatest influences on the development of globalization. The internet has transformed how people work, provides a platform where companies that are thousands of miles away can communicate and share information almost instantaneously. The impact of the internet on globalization has both positive and negative effects.…