Flattener

The World Is Flat

In the video by Tom Friedman he makes many valuable points when he talks about hit flattening ideas. However, I think his most significant flattener that he talks about is the company that was founded on August 9, 1995. That company would be known as Netscape. This took such significance to me because if you think about the world today people take technology for granted. Could you imagine the world today without the use of the internet? Think about it for a second. The internet consists of so many things it seems so endless. Virtually I think everything will come down to being done on an internet basis. For some examples just look at employers reaching out to gain potential employees. People can go online now and look up a job and not even have to go to the actual store to get an application. Also email has changed the world in a far faster world. I don’t think I go a day without using the internet either it be for chatting with friends, doing research, or checking an email, the world today would be a far more different place if there were no internet. I talk about the internet so much because it was sad by Tom Friedman that Netscape was the first to make the internet public. Also what made Netscape such a strong flattener was that they made the internet a set of open transmission protocols. This means that people could send emails to each other even if they weren’t sending them to the same type of services. Making the internet world I guess you could say bilingual makes it easy for us to communicate back and forth. It is just like if a town’s police station had a set of codes and the one next door had a different set. If one town needed help and sent out a code the other town wouldn’t know what it was because they had different ones.

Eric Kelly