Joshua Walker

Prof. Jensen

IST 1100

1/17/2015

The difference between globalization 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 is that with globalization 1.0 was from 1492 or Columbus to the 1800's. This caused the world to change from large to medium because countries were globalizing. For example Spain to America and Britain to India. Globalization 2.0 was from 1800's to 2000 and it brought the world from medium to small because companies were going global. Globalization 3.0 changed the world from small to tiny. This change was caused by individuals going global. The internet was a large part of how individuals and communicate with one another. Since at the beginning when Columbus thought the world was flat when he was sailing, everyone believed him. No one could deny the fact since he was the one who sailed and saw with his own eyes and felt that the world was flat. As we know now the world is not flat. Also with globalization i think it has to trading on a global standpoint. I felt that in terms of what Friedman meant by the world being flat is that we were limited until the rise of globalization and everything expanded. Like mentioned before communication as far as trading with other countries and technology expanded globalization.

The fall of the Berlin Wall to Friedman had a big impact on his life, as well as many others obviously. It made a huge impact on the economy and the technology in Europe as well in Germany obviously the site of where the fall of the Berlin Wall took place. Germany was impacted directly since we knew the why the Berlin Wall was even up. It was dividing German up and the fall basically united all of Germany all over again. As stated in the previous I felt it opened up trading and communication up with other countries and a rise in technology started.

The story of Netscape is important because following a theme here another form of communication expanded and came to power. It was best known Netscape Navigator as it was a browser. It opened up many forms of communication with other people but the more impactful thing I felt like it did was open up communication with other countries expanding the ways of trade and making it useful to get things from one place to the other.