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.