Friday, September 18, 2009
Join the Innovation Fray
It was a surprising news that globalization has been started since the discovery of the North America by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Through the lecture, we learned how digital revolution transformed our society, especially politics, economics and even an individual’s life.
The author, Thomas L. Freidman’s idea of flattened world by digital revolution has consisted of significant elements that go in a chronological order such as the collapsing of Berlin Wall, World Wide Web browser-Netscape, Workflow software, uploading, outsourcing, off-shoring, and supply-chaining.
The author, Thomas L. Freidman explains well about flattened world by the following statement;
“This created a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple
forms of collaboration on research and work in real time, without regard
to geography, distance or, in the near future, even language. “It is the cre-
ation of this platform with these unique attributes, that is the truly impor-
tant sustainable breakthrough that made what you call the flattening of the
world possible.”