Flattening the World

1.
a) The berlin wall is a symbol to flattening the world for general global shifts towards democratic governments and free market economies.
b)this operating system was so much easier to use than previous versions that Friedman argues it is in large part responsible for popularizing personal computing.
c)The reason that personal computing is influential is that it
fostered people’s interaction with digital media content manipulated and shared an infinite number of ways.
d) It impowered people by given the tools to author and share new
information faster and easier than ever before.

2.
a)Tim Berners-Lee created the programming language for writing webpages called HTML.
b)allowed authors to do things like make “links” from one page to another and to store and share images
c) The Netscape web browser in December 1994.
d)The laying of miles and miles of fiber optic cable, which could carry billions of times more information than the previous medium: the twisted-pair copper wire that is inside telephone lines. When the bubble burst, the American public still had this information superhighway, which is why high-speed (broadband)Internet service is now so inexpensive.

3.
a)Work Flow Software is a software that enables workers in different locations to collaborate efficiently.
b)The writers work from home: Florida, London,New York, and Chicago.

4.
a)Uploading is a process of transmitting information from your computer to a network.
b)Community-Developed Software is he result of the careful planning of small teams of experts who work for big companies like Microsoft. hese people work on the program as a hobby, usually with no expectation of financial reward. It is used around the world by all servers.
c)Cnsists of one person’s online journal, often with the ability
for others to post comments.

5.
a)Ithe process of taking work that used to be done in-house and paying another company to do it.
b)Outsourcing 1) a huge amount of fiber-optic cable was laid in India by U.S.companies in the 1990s, which became incredibly cheap after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000,giving Indians a nearly-free broadband connection to the U.S.; 2) India’s Institutes of echnology provide world-class education in engineering, computer science, and management; nd 3) thanks to its history as a former British colony, India has the world’s second-largest opulation of English speakers.

6.
a)Offsourcing is when a company moves its production from its home country to anothercountry, where it can be done with “cheaper labor, lower taxes, subsidized energy, and lowerhealth-care costs”.
b)The fact that China’s wages have such a big impact on the
wages of workers all over the globe is another example of how the world has become “flatter.”
c)Postivie Offshoring is U.S companies can sell people the same items as in stores but for cheaper and better prices.
7.
a)Supply-chaining is increasing the connections between suppliers, retailers, andcustomers.
b)Although Wal-Mart has come under heavy criticism for its
treatment of employees, an often-overlooked factor contributing to its domination of the retailmarket is how intelligently it handles products

8. Insourcing UPS helps small businesses because it is helping their company grow larger in profit, and increasing ranges of customres.

9.Google contributes to in-forming because it enables people to find webpages that aremore relevant to their searches than any other search service.
b)Google is a risk because you can find out a lot of information about yourself and others.

10.
a)Digital steriods put all text, sound, photo, and video media into a
common standard – digital (0’s and 1’s in a computer) – that can be easily shared, stored,searched, and manipulated.
b)
Personal steroids shift power from institutions to individuals and including electronics, and people usage.

Flattening the world to me means by increasing our ways of communicating with people from all around the world. I think it is a good thing to Flatten the World that way we can communicate with people from different countries and nations. It affects me by communication beause if we didnt have it, a lot of people would be lost.

Flat Classroom Project Arianna A. A4

Home Tab/Flatten Classroom: The concept of a flatten classroom basing the principles of interacting socially with your teacher or other peers, understanding educational situations on the same matter, or (same page).

About Tab: The about tab is divided into 5 different sections. Organizers, Awards, Testimonials, Flat Classroom Media Page, and Presentations. Each tab interacts with the whole idea of "flatten classroom". Throughout this tab, it talks about the website itself, about organizers of this foundation, awards recieved for this site, a page that talks about the whole idea of "Flatten Classroom", and examples and original copies of presentations presented on this website.

Flat Classrom Project Tab:
Application Deadline: December 1 (previous calendar year)
Online Teacher Information meeting before January 15
Classroom and student handshake January 15-31
Wiki editing and collaboration: February
Non-participating classrooms removed from participating: February 15
Video pitches and creation: March
Student Summits and video judging: April 1-15
Awards ceremony: After April 15 as determined by the project organizer

Past Project Tab: (3 videos)
In the first video i watched, Mobiles in our Life, it shows how cellphones and other technologies used for communication are very important and can be used everywhere throughout the world, even at school education. I think it is unfair that they get to use cellphones during school because no phones are allowed to be used at our school, only during lunch hours. It is especially important to have cellphones on you incase of an emergency, or urgent cases. I believe it should be necessary and allowed to have cellphones at school.

In the second video i watched, Connecting the World, shows that the internet is much more than just Facebook or Myspace, rather than social network sites. There's more ways to connect to the world rather than online, explore and find out different ways on your own. I think that this is a good idea because there's much more to the world than social networking sites, adventure and find out how and what ways to connect around the world.

In the third video i watched, The World Wide Web, it talks about if we didnt have internet, the world would be disconnected. The world would be disconnected from communication, transports, emails, research and much more. I think its a good idea that we have internet because it connects people from all around the world, and its a great source of information.

Global Uses of the Internet from 1996 and 2010. Arianna Anderson A4

From 1996 until 2010, the internet relates and differs from over time through the past 14 years. It reflects on both different ages through time, determining how many countries used access to the internet, what they used it for, what it looked like from the past as of now, how fast the internet was capable of going, what major wed browsers were used, and what types of Communication Tools were available.
During 1996, most countries throughout the world used the internet, but not all of them. 100% of North America had access, about 98% of South America, 20% of Africa, 100% of Australia, and about 98% of Europe.
Compared to todays generation, the internet is used from all around the world, more than 195 countries have access to it. People in 1996 used it for allowing people and their networks to work with eachother, share ideas and comments to collaberate, to become a social and professional online network. The internet used today enhances, improves, and brings into existence many of these forms of communication.
Back in 1996, the internet was dull, "dead" looking, nothing to that seemed too appealing. As of today though, internet is used with colors, different websites, browsers, over time-progressing to become more appealing and thrives others to want to get on the internet more often. The internet was also much faster compared to then in the past. As of today there is wi-fi and much more other high apps that can help make your computer software speed things up.
A major web browser used in 1996 was the Netscape Navigator, it was used widely throughout the world during this time. As of today, major web browsers were Microsoft Windows, FireFox 3.0, Google, and much more.
Types of Communication tools used during 1996 were the only available phones in the house, letters, possible computer use.
As of today, internet is used daily for communication tools, as well as phones, email, social networking sites, and much more.
The internet today is used daily around the world, rather than back in the 1990's with very little graphic and incomplete internet information. Im glad we have internet because i use it all the time.