"The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman

Task: Watch the Friedman video and answer these questions briefly.http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/16117-the-world-is-flat (Start at min 4:16, only watch until 35:45 minutes, unless you're really captivated). Write your answers in this document. These are your notes for helping you reflect on the content and for later writing your Globalization paper. You will get credit for submitting this learning activity.

What is outsourcing?

Where is Bangalore?

What were the services the Bangalorian wanted to provide Mr. Friedman? (8.00-8.50)

What did the Nonda Delacati Indian businessman mean by "The global economic playing field is being leveled and you Americans are not ready." (8.50-9.13)

How many Japanese-speaking Chinese are running the support, software development, and

business processing of major Japanese conglomerates from Dalian city?

How many years of Japanese were the Chinese students near Dalian required to take?

How many years of a foreign language have you studied?

Have you ever flown Jet Blue airlines?

What is unique about Jet Blue's phone reservation customer support?

Who sponsored Globalization 1.0 through years 1400-1800?

Who sponsored Globalization 2.0 through years 1800-2000?

Who are the movers, according to Freedman, of the Globalization 3.0 that we are experiencing?

What happened on 11-9-1989?

What happened a few months after 11-9-1989?

How did these two events, according to Freedman, lead to Globalization 3.0?

How did Netscape lead to Globalization 3.0?

How much did the fiberoptics across the Pacific to India cost investors? Was it successful or a failure?

Ship laying fiber optic cable (source http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/OSP/install.html)

What is open sourcing? What's an example of open sourcing? (26.30)