The Triple Convergence

The Triple Convergence

     - The first convergence shows how the ten flatteners came together in a way that people could see things different after 2000.

    - The second convergence is the emergence of a business practices and skills.

    - The third convergence is the entrance of some three billion people onto the playing field. During the 1990s the economies and political systems of several nations opened up in a way that the citizens of these nations were able to join the free market game.

These three have been an explosion in the number of workers in the global economic labor force.

# The relevance of this chapter to Iraq's growth and development is not that much. Iraq development is different from many countries, so that in the five last years, IT was not something common between citizens except particular individuals.

# Friedman means by 'the great sorting out' the comparison of the industrial revolution to the current IT revolution. He also means by that examining the blurring boundaries between companies and different groups of workers, and the relationships between communities and the businesses. In addition to that, identities become harder to define.

Friedman's 8. 9. and 10 flatteners

Friedman's 8. 9. and 10 flatteners


Flattener 8:  in-sourcing, a whole new form of collaboration and horizontal value creation. Friedman's example is that many companies cannot afford a global supply chain management solution.

Flattener 9: in-forming, people have universal access to information through tools, such as Google.

Flattener 10: the steroids, including powerful laptops, wireless technology. Blackberry device, and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).


Wireless technology in Suli
     This technology is very popular in Suli because it is widely used; the majority of people here are using wireless to access the internet. Suli's people prefer this technology because they can use it at home and by each member of a family if it is identified for everyone. Wireless technology has a big impact on this society because it is needed all around the city, and people have gotten used to use this technology for their internet needs. For most people here, it is the best way of using the internet because it is fast and cheap.

Friedman's flatteners 4, 5, 6

Friedman's flatteners 4, 5, 6

• Flattener 4: source opening- shared working and collaborating.
• Flattener 5: companies are allowed by outsourcing and people to get other work done for them, businesses are allowed to work in the most efficient, cost- effective, time effective way.
• Flattener 6: offshoring, the practice od a company in one country arranging for people in another country to do work for it.

 * Technology has enabled them by changing the space in which firms and proffessionals compete,  by creating a web- enabled palying field that enables participants to collaborate regardless of geography, distance or language, and by creating and sharing programs.

 

* Flattener 4 is the most disruptive force of all because uploading is very important in the computer world that today we live in. It allows people to put information on the web and let other people get it. So with no uploading, we cannot have information or web that we have today.



Summary of CH1, While I Was Sleeping

       There were three periods of globalization. The first period included countries that were globalizing from around 1400 to 1800, countries in the second period were globalizing from 1800 to 2000, and in the third period, when the world flattened, people from different nationalities started to globalize themselves after 2000. During the first period, the world shrunk a little, and globalization started when Columbus found out that the world was round. In addition, people created jobs, made industries, and economies were filled with buildings. finally, Mr. Friedman traveled to a few countries to have conversations about different kinds of business outsourcing.

Ch2 Flatteners 1, 2, and 3:

Flattener 1: The Berlin Wall collapsed (11/9/89)-  People were allowed to use their own personal computers.

Flattener 2: Netscape- The audience expanded.

Flattener 3: The processing of Software- or people did not help machines to talk to other machines because of their ability to do that.  

 

 

Summary of Ray Kurweil

         The main ideas of Mr. Kurweil's speech are that by the evolution of technology, we can over come diseases and problems, and the development of technology is very fast. These developments have had key of events which might affect us through generations.

         My way of thinking toward the most interesting future trend is that technology will develop to a level that people do not expect, so we all should be prepared and ready for many events due to technology in the future.