Flattening the World

1a. When the Berlin wall came down the people of Berlin got to collaborate with the rest of the world. This symbolized how people will collaborate.
1b. Microsoft launched Windows.
1c. Windows let people do things they couldn't do before, and they could do it quickly and easily.
1d. People were given new tools which were like a new power.
2a. Tim Berners-Lee
2b. They could make links and add images.
2c. Netscape
2d. It was an enormous rise in technology stock.
3a. It enables workers in different locations to collaborate.
3b. They work from home.
4a. Transmitting information to a network.
4b. It is software created by an average person.
4c. Blogging lets all ideas of people come into one place.
5a. Outsourcing lets people from different regions to communicate.
5b. A huge amount of fiber-optic cable was laid in India by U.S.
companies in the 1990s. India’s Institutes of
Technology provide world-class education in engineering, computer science, and management. India has the world’s second-largest
population of English speakers.
6a. Offshoring is when an entire company moves to a new country.
6b. China's wages have such a big impact on the rest of the world's wages.
6c. Offshoring can make a company spend less on labor.
7a. Wal-Mart is always checking the demand in all of its products when it each procuct is checked in. Then they can decide how much of the product they need, and keep efficient.
7b. Wal-Mart cuts on labor costs and uses illegal immigrants.
7c. I think Wal-Mart is a good store because they are very cheap.
8a. UPS cuts costs on shipping and helps their businesses.
9a. Google lets people find almost anything they are looking for.
9b.Too much information is being put on google.
10a. Digital steroids put all information into a series of 1's and 0's.
10b. Personal steroids give common people power.
11. Flattening the world means allowing people from all over the world to collaborate. There are many ways to collaborate, and when they world is flat we can use them all. We will help small businesses, outsource, insource, offshore, exchange information, and search the internet for whatever we want. When the world is flat nothing is foreign.