The World Is Flat: Flatteners 9 & 10 questions
1. Searching on the Internet is a "flattener" because of the diversity of searches going on, and in many different languages. People have never before been able to find so much information about so many other people.
2. "In-forming" is the individual's personal analog to uploading, outsourcing, insourcing, supply-chaining, and off-shoring. In-forming is the ability to build and deploy your own personal supply chain, self-collaborate, search for knowledge, and to seek like-minded people and communities.
3. The impact of super searches on personal privacy is the amount of information available about a person just by searching for them. If you enter a phone number in Google, the persons' address comes up. Newspapers articles come up that contain the name you searched for.
4. "Steroids" refers to certain new technologies. They are amplifying and turbocharing all the other flatteners.
5.
--Instant messaging and file sharing: computer users can share songs, videos, and other kinds of files with one another online. Napster was the most popular peer-to-peer network, which allowed people to share songs stored on their computer. Napster was shut down by a court order because of copyright violations. Napster was popular because it gave people the ability to download music for free.
--Making phone calls over the Internet: VoIP (voice-over Internet protocol) allows you to make phone calls over the Internet by turning voices into data packets that are sent down Internet networks and converted back into voices on the other end. It will make every business and personal phone call to anywhere in the world as cheap as a local call. You will have a buddy list of people and you just double-click on a name and the call will go through. When someone calls you, the caller's picture will come up on the screen.
--Videoconferencing: Each party to the videoconference sits at a table facing a wall of TV screens. Cameras are pointed at the people in the room. The TV screen displays the people at the other site, which could be anywhere in the world. This creates the effect of everyone sitting around a single conference table. Videoconferencing will eventually make remote development, outsourcing, and offshoring easier and more efficient.
--Advances in computer graphics (especially in computer games): Enhances video collaboration and computing by offering sharper images and more ways to illustrate and manipulate those images on a screen. Video games have realistic images and great sound. They are interactive and collaborative, which is a good launch pad for thinking about how people should best interact with will all kinds of computer applications as well as each other in the future.
2. "In-forming" is the individual's personal analog to uploading, outsourcing, insourcing, supply-chaining, and off-shoring. In-forming is the ability to build and deploy your own personal supply chain, self-collaborate, search for knowledge, and to seek like-minded people and communities.
3. The impact of super searches on personal privacy is the amount of information available about a person just by searching for them. If you enter a phone number in Google, the persons' address comes up. Newspapers articles come up that contain the name you searched for.
4. "Steroids" refers to certain new technologies. They are amplifying and turbocharing all the other flatteners.
5.
--Instant messaging and file sharing: computer users can share songs, videos, and other kinds of files with one another online. Napster was the most popular peer-to-peer network, which allowed people to share songs stored on their computer. Napster was shut down by a court order because of copyright violations. Napster was popular because it gave people the ability to download music for free.
--Making phone calls over the Internet: VoIP (voice-over Internet protocol) allows you to make phone calls over the Internet by turning voices into data packets that are sent down Internet networks and converted back into voices on the other end. It will make every business and personal phone call to anywhere in the world as cheap as a local call. You will have a buddy list of people and you just double-click on a name and the call will go through. When someone calls you, the caller's picture will come up on the screen.
--Videoconferencing: Each party to the videoconference sits at a table facing a wall of TV screens. Cameras are pointed at the people in the room. The TV screen displays the people at the other site, which could be anywhere in the world. This creates the effect of everyone sitting around a single conference table. Videoconferencing will eventually make remote development, outsourcing, and offshoring easier and more efficient.
--Advances in computer graphics (especially in computer games): Enhances video collaboration and computing by offering sharper images and more ways to illustrate and manipulate those images on a screen. Video games have realistic images and great sound. They are interactive and collaborative, which is a good launch pad for thinking about how people should best interact with will all kinds of computer applications as well as each other in the future.
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