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The World is Flat

The World is Flat. Dr. Cegielski Lecture 3. The Stages of Globalization (From Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat ). Globalization 1.0 (from 1492 to 1800) Globalization 2.0 (from 1800 to 2000) Globalization 3.0 (from 2000 to the present). Globalization 1.0. Christopher Columbus.

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The World is Flat

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  1. The World is Flat Dr. Cegielski Lecture 3

  2. The Stages of Globalization (From Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat) • Globalization 1.0 (from 1492 to 1800) • Globalization 2.0 (from 1800 to 2000) • Globalization 3.0 (from 2000 to the present)

  3. Globalization 1.0 Christopher Columbus

  4. Globalization 2.0 (first half) Railroads Steam engine

  5. Globalization 2.0 (second half) Satellites Fiber optics Apple Mac Pro OpenMoko open source smart phone

  6. Globalization 3.0 3.0 2.0 1.0

  7. Globalization 3.0 (continued) Schematic Map of the Internet

  8. Thomas Freidman’s Ten Flatteners • Fall of the Berlin Wall • Netscape goes public • Development of work-flow software • Uploading • Outsourcing • Offshoring • Supply Chaining • Insourcing • Informing • The Steriods

  9. Fall of the Berlin Wall

  10. Rise of the European Union (a consequence of the Fall of the Berlin Wall)

  11. Netscape Goes Public Marc Andreessen (wrote Mosaic browser and Netscape browser)

  12. Workflow Software

  13. Uploading

  14. The Open Source Movement (essential ingredient of uploading) Apache Web server Linux

  15. The Open Source Movement (continued) Firefox Thunderbird Mozilla

  16. The SeaMonkey Project Formerly the Mozilla Application Suite

  17. Outsourcing Outsourcing gained momentum and “took off” with Year 2000 (Y2K) problem

  18. Offshoring Call center in India

  19. Supply Chaining

  20. Insourcing

  21. Informing It’s not just There are MANY other interesting search engines as we see in Chapter 5

  22. The Steroids • Digital • Mobile • Virtual • Personal

  23. First Steroid: Computing (processing) TO Ultramobile personal computer Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine (1822)

  24. Computing (continued – storage) TO Sony Micro Vault Thumb Drive Capacity: 2 gigabytes First disk storage unit by IBM (1956) Capacity: 5 megabytes Size: Refrigerator

  25. Second Steroid: Instant Messaging and File Sharing Instant messaging (example) File sharing (example)

  26. Third Steroid: Voice over Internet Protocol

  27. Fourth Steroid:Videoconferencing A telepresence system in a conference room

  28. Videoconferencing (continued) An individual telepresence system

  29. Videoconferencing and Medicine New Zealand used Polycom, a leading vendor of telepresence systems, to provide a telemedicine application for children.

  30. Fifth Steroid:Computer Graphics

  31. Sixth Steroid:Wireless Technologies Using cell phone in motion Geostationary satellite Bluetooth phone sunglasses

  32. The Great Convergence We are in a convergence of three powerful, technological forces: (1) Cheap and ubiquitous computing devices (2) Low-cost, high bandwidth (3) Open standards

  33. The Great Convergence (continued) In essence, we have computing everywhere and anywhere, anytime and all the time, with access to limitless amounts of information, services, and entertainment.

  34. The Great Convergence (continued) We have the creation of a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration – the sharing of knowledge and work – in real time, without regard to geography, distance, or, in the near future, even language.  The field now includes some 3 billion new people, formerly digitally disenfranchised.

  35. The Global, Web-Based Platform

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