HDEV 369 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Videotelephony, Insourcing, The Walls Came Down
17 Sep 2016
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Chapter 2: the ten forces that flattened the world. The world has been flattened by the convergence of ten major political events, innovations, and companies. The new age of creativity: when the walls came down and the. Berlin wall fell: he argues that although many forces caused the wall to fall, the first among equals was the use of information technology like fax machines to spread information. Some people thought that ronald reagan had brought down the wall by bankrupting the ussr through an arms race; others though ibm, steve. Jobs, and bill gates had brought down the wall by empowering individuals to download the future. The new age of connectivity: when the web went around and. Creation of the world wide web - system for creating, organizing, and linking documents so they could be easily browsed over the internet. Internet-email-browser phase, flattened the earth a little bit more.
