In
Friedman’s mind there is 3 areas of globalization, what do these three areas
have in common? They deal with resources, one difference about the 3 areas that
they were introduced at different times throughout history. Globalization 1.0
goes clear back when Columbus set sail in 1492. Globalization 2.0 wasn't
approached until the 1800’s over 400 years after Columbus. Globalization
3.0 is now in this day in aged staring in the 2000’s. How else are these era’s different? Globalization
1.0 shrank the world too large to medium. Globalization 2.0 went down more to
medium size to small. Globalization is a little different the 2 others, it
shrank the world small to tiny but also focus on individuals globally.
Friedman
states in the beginning of his story of his trip to the Berlin Wall that the
fall even a year after was like an “ugly scar” across Berlin. He goes on
talking and exploring the wall even brings pieces of it to his daughters back
home. It made lots of changes in Berlin; the fall of the wall opened the eyes
of the people. He says, “Because the Berlin Wall was not only blocking our way;
it was blocking our sight-our ability to think about the world as a single
marker, a single ecosystem, and a single community.” That sentence hit hard
with me, it’s amazing how much a wall and destruction would make such an
impact.
The
Netscape pages in this book is a big part and very important of globalization
3.0. Before Netscape the internet was broken up into different systems,
Netscape brought those systems together. Meaning you could communicate through
different systems, also meaning you and someone across town didn’t have to have
the small system to communicate. It gave power to the people on the World Wide
Web. This section was very interesting to me; I am one of the types of people
that don’t think of the back history of things we use today. The World Wide Web
is a HUGE part of society today; imagine if we didn't have Netscape if we would
have the technology we have today? We will never know I guess. So reading this
section was very intriguing to me, took me a while to understand it but still
intriguing.
I
am going to be honest; this book is not what I expected to be like. I love the
author’s point of view in the story. He makes a subject or story interesting. I
honestly just expected another college textbook with theories and stories that
I couldn't connect to. The Berlin Wall
story I think was my favorite out of that whole first section. It’s making
things that have happened is yesterday that affecting the way we live today.
