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Unit 1-3 Globalization
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
Which events and technologies allowed people to communicate outside of political, social and physical boundaries?
2. The ‘Flat’ World: Globalization 3.0
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 Dominance1. Natural Resources2. Technological Advantagesa. River System (Transportation and Power)
b. Coal and other minerals3. Developing new resources and marketsa. Naval Superiority
b. Steam Enginea. India
b. Chinac. Africa
B. Geopolitics – Balancing of competing world powers1. 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 II7. Cold WarC. Telecommunications / Mass Media1. 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 Wall1. Political independenceB. Netscape IPO
2. Economic independence1. Investment in fiber-optic networks2. Access to huge amounts of informationC. Workflow Software1. Allowing asynchronous collaboration and work (PayPal)D. Open-sourcing
2. Allowing access to corporate technology assets (VPN)1. Use of tools created collaboratively (Apache, Linux, Web 2.0 Applications)E. Outsourcing
2. Corporate embracing of unlicensed technology tools1. Sending tasks to countries with lower labor costsF. Offshoring
2. Developing third world economies.1. Developing entire factories in foreign countries.G. Supply Chaining
2. Collaboration of developed and developing economies.1. Corporations developing the sophisticated supply chainsH. Insourcing
2. Increase of profit by vertical integration.1. Large companies creating supply-chains for small companiesI. In-forming
2. Small companies gaining access to global markets1. Search strategies allow access and manipulation of informationJ. Wireless
2. Cost of storage allows individuals to possess more information1. Allows access to all media in any location.
2. Convergence of tools in one
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