Central Question: Which events have allowed people to communicate, collaborate and innovate over the past 100 years? What social, political and cultural norms have facilitated or impeded this process over time?

Which events and countries led to the knowledge of all lands and peoples of the world? Which tools allowed people to communicate without meeting face to face? How did politics improve and / or impede this process?

1. Industrialization and Colonization: Globalization 2.0

A. British Dominance

1. Natural Resources

a. River System (Transportation and Power)
b. Coal and other minerals

2. Technological Advantages

a. Naval Superiority
b. Steam Engine

3. Developing new resources and markets

a. India
b. China

c. Africa

B. Geopolitics – Balancing of competing world powers

1. War of 1812 – Balance of Power
2. Unification of Germany and Italy
3. Berlin Conference of 1885
4. Spanish-American War
5. World War I
6. World War II

7. Cold War

C. Telecommunications / Mass Media

1. Telegraph
2. Telephone
3. Print Media (Newspapers and Magazines)
4. Radio

5. Television

Which events and technologies allowed people to communicate outside of political, social and physical boundaries?

2. The ‘Flat’ World: Globalization 3.0

A. The fall of the Berlin Wall

1. Political independence
2. Economic independence

B. Netscape IPO

1. Investment in fiber-optic networks

2. Access to huge amounts of information

C. Workflow Software

1. Allowing asynchronous collaboration and work (PayPal)
2. Allowing access to corporate technology assets (VPN)

D. Open-sourcing

1. Use of tools created collaboratively (Apache, Linux, Web 2.0 Applications)
2. Corporate embracing of unlicensed technology tools

E. Outsourcing

1. Sending tasks to countries with lower labor costs
2. Developing third world economies.

F. Offshoring

1. Developing entire factories in foreign countries.
2. Collaboration of developed and developing economies.

G. Supply Chaining

1. Corporations developing the sophisticated supply chains
2. Increase of profit by vertical integration.

H. Insourcing

1. Large companies creating supply-chains for small companies
2. Small companies gaining access to global markets

I. In-forming

1. Search strategies allow access and manipulation of information
2. Cost of storage allows individuals to possess more information

J. Wireless

1. Allows access to all media in any location.
2. Convergence of tools in one