| third | Date: Monday, 16/01/2012, 9:53 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Who is at the forefront of this shrinking and flattening of the world?
small group of people who is at the forefront of this shrinking and flattening of the world.
Which nationalities is 3.0 going to be built around? What is the only requirement for them?
It will built around a small group of people that have a different color skin around the world with different nationalities.
He mentions 10 "flatteners" - which one did you find the most interesting and why? You might want to jot them down as you watch.
All sorts of things are happening to magnify the previous nine flatteners. Examples are the continued effects of Moore's Law, wi-fi, instant messaging, file sharing, P2P, VoIP, videoconferencing...
Next he talks about "the triple convergence" which brings home how these ten flatteners are changing and will change the world.
His first point is the sum is more than the parts. Each development has value in itself but it is much more valuable when combined with the others. A PC is great, but coupled with the internet the possibilities expand tremendously. The ten flatteners taken together constitute a quantum leap and "created a whole new platform. It is a global Web-enabled platform for multiple forms of collaboration".
The second convergence addresses the fact that the world today looks much the same as the world yesterday. With any major technological advance there is a lag between invention and major impact because organizations, processes, and facilities have to be redesigned around the new capability. Friedman gives various examples starting with light bulbs and electric motors. Each changed society but there was a lag.
The third convergence is globalization. He speaks of "new players, on a new playing field, developing new processes and habits for horizontal collaboration - that I believe is the most potent force... The scale of the global community that is soon going to be able to participate in all sorts of discovery and innovation is something the world has simply never seen before." He sites many examples of international developments.
What do you think? Is he right? What does this mean for the world? Is the world going Horizontal?
In my opinion i think that it might happening but in the reality of scientific have find the evidence that the world are circle so therefore, the world will not going to become horizontal.
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| Ping | Date: Monday, 16/01/2012, 12:43 PM | Message # 2 |
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| I'm agree with you that the first flatteners are collaborate and link with other nine flatteners. If they are no first flatteners the others can't happen. All of them cause the world to become more flatten.
I think that he said in terms of going horizontal and vertical is just metaphor , because vertical in his way means world 2.0 and world 1.0 while world 3.0 is horizontal. Therefore, he doesn't mean in the terms of scientific ways.
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| Jerry | Date: Tuesday, 17/01/2012, 10:01 AM | Message # 3 |
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| That's true.
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