Flattening the World

1. The Berlin Wall
a) The Berlin Wall was a symbol of flattening the world because when the wall was up, it was one community, one ecosystem, and one market,in other words a barrier. When the wall fell, it opened up to the world and became an open playing field for all.
b)About six months after the wall came down, Microsoft came out with a new program that was called The Windows Went Up, which was a big breakthrough in personal computing for people.
c) The personal computing is influential because it represented 1's and 0's on the computer that can be saved, manipulated, and shared in many ways. It also opened up more media for people.
d)Personal computing empowered people because they were more comfortable with technology and could use more media. They opened their horizons to new technological advances.
2.New Age of Connectivity
a)TimBerners-Lee created HTML.
b)HTML allowed authors to create hyperlinks and to send and share images on the computer. HTML made the computer a lot faster.
c)Netscape was the browser that started the revolution of the HTML.
d)The important outcome of the bubble was that cables could carry billions more information than the copper telephone wires.
3. Work Flow Software
a)The Work Flow Software is a program that allows people working in different states or conditions to come be able to communicate and collaborate with each other.
b)The teams of the Higglytown Heroes work in many places including Florida, London, New York, Chicago, Las Angeles, India, and San Fransisco.
4.Uploading
a) Uploading is the transmitting information from the computer to a network.
b)The Community-developed software is a program that a group of amateurs work on as a hobby. The bad thing is that there is not good service to call if you have a problem or question.
c)Blogs help flatten the world because they are like online journals. While most might be really long and personal, most blogs are about specific topics and are helpful for people and you can view it all online.
5.Outsearching
a)Outsourcing helps flatten the world because you can take your work from home and pay other people to do it for you and you do not have to worry about it. The information is easily past and it opens up many career options as well.
b)Reason number one for why India became so popular with outsourcing is because fiber optic cable was laid all over India which could hold more information billions of times better than telephone wires. The second reason is because Technology institutes in India was very beneficial in science, accounting, and math. The third reason is because India has the second largest population of English speaking people.
6.Offshoring
a)Offshoring is moving a company from the home to another country where it can be done cheaper and has lower medical costs.
b)China is affecting the flattening world because many companies move the business to China and if rival companies want to be able to compete that means they must move their companies to China also. The people in China are paid very little for their labor, so China has become the greatest manufacturing place.
c)One positive of offshoring is that the wages in China are less, so the same labor can get done for less if the company does move to China.
7.Supply-Chaining
a)The steps to supply chaining start when the cashier checks your item out, the signal is sent to Wal-Mart command centers, and there it is checked to see if more supply is in need or not and then trucks come to supply the needed items to the store.
b)The negative effect or efficiency is that Wal-Mart is in constant demand for the lowest prices. The workers may be locked overnight supplying the store and some illegal immigrants even come to work as Janitors.
c)I think that Wal-Mart is still good at keeping the prices low and they have some good competition because people are starting to look for the lowest prices possible in today's economy.
8.Insourcing
a)UPS helps small business because they are becoming more recognized and growing larger. It is easier to transport items through shipping it, and therefore you can send items anywhere in the world by the simple use of a UPS truck.
9. In-forming
a)Google helps with informing because it enables people to find webpages that are directed towards what they searched. It is simple and pulls up thousands of links about the topic.
b)Google is a risk because you can find out more about people. You can easily search yourself and find something about you. There is more personal information that can be found through google and google will pull up those lings.
10.The Steroids
a) Digital Steroids pulls all media(pictures,text, video, etc) and stores it on your computer where it can be manipulated and shared.
b)Personal steroids shift power from institutes to individuals and includes web pages.


To me, flattening the world means that we are creating new and efficient ways to communicate with people all over the world. Every day, new technology is being invented and so does the technology on the internet. I think that the Flattening the world is very beneficial because we are creating new ways to have access to the internet. Almost everything can be done over the Internet today, which is a huge step from the Internet in previous years. The lines of communication have become easier between people too. Altogether, the flattening the world helps all people.