Chapter 1
When Thomas L. Friedman was in India he looks at the city
and its buildings and he realizes how much has this city developed. He said
that the world is flat, which means that the technology and knowledge is not only in some countries as it was used to
be, but it is now spread on a large scale of places. In a visit to Infosys
Technologies Ltd he sees how much is the city of Bangalore is developed, they
have a large conference room that allows them to be connected to anything or
anywhere via Internet. Also, Friedman divides the process of flatness or the
globalization into three stages from the days of Columbus to the great
depression to this day. Furthermore, as he travels to Japan and China he
notices the “outsourcing”. One of the Chinese cities, Dalian, became an
outsource for Japan with it the names such as SONY, Dell, and Microsoft etc. He
notices the flattening in America too; the military uses the technology in
Iraq, restaurants like McDonalds can serve your order through a call center.
Chapter 2
1.
The New Age of Creativity: When the Walls Came Down and the Windows
Went Up.
This flattener talks about the collapse of
the Berlin wall, which allowed Germany to be united, also liberated the captive
prisoners of the Soviet empire, and changed the power distribution across the
world to those people who promote for democracy and free- market governments.
2.
The New Age of Connectivity: When the Web Went Around and Netscape Went
Public.
It starts with the merge of the Internet,
which is computers connected together, and the World Wide Web, which the pages,
sites that contain the information. With software systems, such as Windows and
Macintosh, and web-browsers people can interact with each other and share
photos, information.
3.
Work Flow Software.
Being able to exchange information made work
between companies or within the same company much easier, with the HTML and other
protocols, people from different companies can exchange information as they are
speaking the same language!
