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As
I mentioned before, I would like to share one of the my favorite book which I
bought in February 2007 ago. The title is THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L.
Friedman.
Actually, some of the contents of
this book's was used by me during presenting Public Speaking when I'm doing my
Penilaian Tahap Kompetensi (PTK) in 2008.
The
author's mentioned that there are Ten (10) Forces That Flattened The World. In
this Part 1, I would like to share the first five (5) of the factors
which are:
- On November 9, 1989: The New Age of Creativity; when the fall of the Berlin Wall that unleashed and tipped the balanced of power across the world towards those advocating democratic, consensual, free-market oriented governance, and away from those advocating authoritarian rule. The Cold War had been a struggle between two economic systems which between capitalism and communism. When the Berlin Wall fall in 1989, there was only one system left.
- The New Age of Connectivity: When the Web Went Around and Netscape Went Public. The authors did mentioned about the concept of a World Wide Web (WWW), a system for creating, organizing and linking documents so they could be easily browsed over the Internet. In facts, WWW was developed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and he posted the first Web site in 1991. After the Berners-Lee inventions, others scientist and created a number of browsers to surf this early Web. The whole culture of Web browsing for the general public was created by a tiny start-up company in Mountain View, California, called Netscape. Netscape went public on August 9, 1995.
- Work Flow Software. The rise and integration of work flow software in mid-to late 1990s was a quiet revolution that most people had no clue what was happening. The work flow software enable more people in more places to design, display, manage and collaborate on business data previously handled manually. The first breakthrough in work flow was the combination of the PC and e-mail.
- Uploading. There are variety of uploading. The flat-world platform not only enabled more people to author more content, and to collaborate on that content. it also enabled people to upload files and globalize the content. The most popular uploading web site is Wikipedia, that also known as "the people's encyclopedia". The word "wiki" is taken from the Hawaiian word for "quick". Wiki are Web sites that allow user to directly edit any Web pages on their own from their home computer.
- Outsourcing here means that many American business player looking more brainpower, educated person especially from India to migrate to the United State to work with them. The history begin when Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, set up the first of India' seven Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the eastern city of Kharagpur. in the fifty-five years since then, hundreds of thousands of Indian have completed to gain entry and then graduate from these IIT's. However, India could not provide good jobs for most of the talented engineers. So, America got to be the second buyer of India's brainpower.
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| The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman |
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