The Triple Convergence

 The ten Flatteners completed each other, but after 2000, business began to develop the concept of working together in a complementary and enhancing fashion. Also, for Technologies, it takes time to get the most of their business development and lifestyle to join and create a new advance. Finally, the most important power determining global economics and  politics is giving access of all playing filed tools of collaboration to people in the 21 century.

The relevance of this chapter to Iraq is that the Friedman's concepts made Iraqi people work together and open some organizations like Save The Children in Iraq to protect Iraqi children from the bad situations in Iraq. 

The great sorting out is a sort of material second impending when the chronological process would finally spread out. There would be a financial Armageddon when the services of effort would overwhelm the services of capitalism. Friedman's point is that what markets are in such a sorting-out period now. The market is deciding what resistances are pleasing and which must go.

Flattener 8,9 and 10

Flattener 8 - Insourcing: A company might market the skill they have as a service.  However, this skill might not be related at all to their own business. Thus, Freidman  used UPS as an example of that. UPS is a package delivery company that has major center at Loisville Airport. Also, UPS is used for managing Papa John's pizza delivery.

Flattener 9 - In-Forming: This is describes as a personal analog of individuals by Freidman. It is used to uploading, outsourcing, insourcing, supply-chaining and offshoring.

Flattener 10 - Steroids: This includes Wireless Internet connection, Voice over Internet, and sharing files. personal digital devices such as mobile phones, ipods, and voice over Internet protocol can be digitized and shaped in a high speed anytime and anywhere we want. 

Military Steroids is popular in Suly.

·       Flattener  #4: Uploading: societies uploading and cooperate with each other on online projects. For example, open source software, blogs, and Wikipedia.

·        Flattener #5: Outsourcing: Outsourcing has allowed companies to opening service and developed activities into machinery that can be delegated and completed in the most capable and cost-effective way. With the mass division of fiber optic cables during the opening of the World Wide Web, the evolution became easier.

·      Flattener   #6: Offshoring: The domestic rearrangement of a company's manufacturing or other practices to a strange land to take benefit of less expensive operations there. China's access in the World Trade Organization (WTO) allowed for greater opposition in the live field.

Friedman argues that the flattener #4 is the most disruptive force of all because communities upload and work with each other on online projects.

The World is Flat

Ch01/ While I was Sleeping

A call to achievement for governments, businesses and individuals who must stay ahead of these trends in order to stay viable is Thomas Friedman’s theory test of the influences shaping business and competition in a technology-fueled overall environment.

Friedman’s message in many studies, interviews and statistics is obvious to be prepared because this fact waits for no one. Also, he draws a picture of a world moving faster than most can keep up. Friedman presents the problems we face, and finds possible solutions for them.

The world is flat is a historical and geographical passage that answers the problems that cannot be even defined. Friedman’s analysis of globalization is a courageous attempt at clearing up and understanding the forces driving the flattening of the world, and he declares that the very nature of creature prevents one from having all of the answers.

Finally, the world is flat is necessary to answer or find solutions for at least some of the problems that people face at the time when people become more able to work together, fight and share with others of different religions, cultures, educational languages.

Ch02/ Flattener

1. Collapse of Berlin Wall--11/9/1989:

The event represented the end of the Cold war; it also allowed people from the other side of the wall to fasten together the financial mainstream.

2. Netscape (8/9/1995):

            Netscape and the Web expand the viewers for the Internet from its family tree as a communications average used primarily by 'early adopters and geeks' to something that made the Internet available to everyone from five-year-olds to ninety-five-year olds.

            3. Workflow software:

            The ability of equipments to talk to other equipments with no humans concerned. Friedman thinks these first three armed forces have become a "crude foundation of a whole new global stage for cooperation.

My thoughts about Ted.com video

According to the video "How technology will transform us," from Ted.com by Ray Kurzweil, I learned most of the importance of technology uses in our daily lives.  The presenter mentions that the technology is becoming greater day after day. For example, he said that most regions in the world are moving directions because in 1990s 500 million people were in poverty, but now the rate is 20 million. Furthermore, biological evolution became technological evolution, and information technology double their capacity every year.  Thus the world will be more developed because of technology.

Although the presenter talked about the advantages of technology, but he also mentioned that people were happy in the 1960s before using technology. According to the video, any business plan can success if they are giving opportunity to build what they said are going to build.  Otherwise, failing business plans are because of wrong timing and using wrong places.  Finally, the presenter said that they can predict future by using technology, and technology devices will become smaller and more powerful than human intelligence in the next years.