...The Internet has made the world smaller means a lot of things. The Internet has connected the world. It has created a new channel of access. Resources are easily accessible. The world seems smaller in a sense, because we can access or research anything we want in seconds. We can visit the top of Mt. Everest; watch a building or an island being created in Dubai, in a matter of seconds. We can even see them at the same time on a computer. We can talk with our grandmother 1500 miles away in a video chat on Skype. We are able to see where our friends are in the world at any given moment with Apple’s Find my Friends app. We can go shopping at any store we please without having to physically be there. The Internet is used to create a web presence that emulates the physical presence as close as possible. Through video, sound, technology, and elaborate computer programming, the Internet can bring the entire world to someone lying in bed with their 13” laptop. With such great connectivity comes convenience and risk. You can talk to your friends, find relatives or old friends, and see a representation of someone’s life through social media outlets such as Facebook. A website has achieved complete success when it can be found all over the Internet. If you watch a video on Yahoo.com, it is posted to your Facebook wall. Your identity is carried across the Internet. The days of creating different accounts for different services and websites are coming to an end. Now a lot of websites have...
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...Galvan IT/205 Chester Grice April 14, 2013 In the business world today, the way in which we conduct business continues to evolve everyday with the continued development of the internet and our ability to keep track of data, which impacts the business as a whole. It is believed that the use and development of information systems in business made globalization possible. (Matthew Read, 2010) The use of information systems has changed the mindset of all that look to run a successful business. The use of tools such as the internet, smart phones, tablets, and laptops has taken the business world by storm, as they have made the day to day operations of a business possible from anywhere. This fact alone has allowed smaller businesses to reach out to a broader customer base, allowing smaller businesses to be more competitive. Smaller businesses have also been able to supplement their earning potential with the addition of online business, leading me to believe that smaller businesses will be able to keep their doors open a little easier. Another area that has improved in the business sector is the rate at which transactions and communication can be processed. For instance the development of email has greatly improved the way in which things get communicated in the business world. In the past you might have been left to leave a voicemail or send a fax to relay a message if you were unable...
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...University of Phoenix Material End of the 20th Century Matrix Choose ten items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1990s and beyond: |Earned Income Tax Credit |Economic prosperity under Clinton | |E-mail |Creating a budget surplus | |NAFTA |The Internet and the World Wide Web | |Telecommunications |The Brady Bill | |Somalia and Rwanda |Apple | |Internet marketing |Digital divide | |Kosovo |Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell | |Cell phones |Microsoft | |Event |Significance ...
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...telephone was being used to move news events and happening around the country. When a new mass media comes it out it tries to displace or interrupt the current media. In the 1900-1910 part of mass media films were starting to be made. It affected the entertainment part of newspapers and magazines but did not take hardly any business from them but the films that were being made were advertised in them. Radios was the next big media that came about in the 1920’s was radian and it was a great media technology for advertisers and people listened to it. The sound recording made in the 190’s- 1990’s were a new media also. Then are the introduction of TV in the 1940’s to present, I think it will never end but its size has got smaller on width and flat and larger in length. Video recorders started coming about in the 1970’s to present and have become smaller since its advent and are not as cumbersome as they once were. The video games also came along side the 1970’s and are still popular today. Computers first appeared in the mainframe forms in the 40’s and 50’s in then started to decrease in size from the 80’s to present. In the 90’s they were sold as desktops and in the 2000’s to present they are laptops and iPads. The biggest change to affect everything was the internet which started in the 90’s to present and is threatening to change everything. Cell phones also have impacted life too. When films came around in the early 1900’s it was going to create a new way of viewing things and created...
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...Economics Human beings are an ever changing species when it comes to what they desire and how they attempt to acquire those desires. Economics is the study of how human beings coordinate their wants and desires, given the decision-making mechanisms, social customs, and political realities of the society (Colander, 2010 pg. 4). This is a broad study that encompasses entire cultures. Businesses are burdened to answer three basic questions when they decide to enter into the markets. The first question is what to produce and how much of it to produce. The second is how to produce the product. Finally, for whom should the product be produced? These are fundamental questions that establish the foundation of the product market. To further narrow the down the study to individual preferences the term microeconomics is used. Microeconomics is defined as the study of individual choice, and how that choice is influenced by economic forces (Colander, 2010 pg. 15). The reason microeconomics is studied is companies can determine how individuals desire to make purchases. By studying individual’s spending habits allows businesses to determine what products the consumers are wanting. Companies do not want to produce goods that have little to no market value. The basic economic structure includes two elemental laws. The law of supply and the law of demand. Without these two elements economics would have no meaning. The law of demand states that the quantity of a good demanded...
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...Some advantages and disadvantages of internet [pic] Availability of Knowledge Advantages The internet which was once just a little puddle, now, have become an ocean; an ocean of knowledge. It is like a magical crystal ball which has an answer for every question of yours and the best thing about it is; it is completely free. I know how much I have learnt from the internet. How internet is better than books when it comes to knowledge? The answer to this would be the infinity of the internet. Plus, apart from this, learning from internet is much more fun. You have all kinds of videos about basically every topic that you can imagine of. Disadvantages If availability of knowledge helps people to do good things, it is also, a help for evil. There are thousands of websites which tells you ways to make a bomb or how to commit suicide. People even learn how to hack websites from the internet. [pic] Communication Advantages Another amazing thing about the internet is the communication that it makes possible. Most of the business firms communicate with each other with the help of e-mails. It is not only a faster way but also the safer way too. With internet you can video chat with a person who might be in some other continent as of yours. Disadvantages We are getting so use to of virtual communication that we are lacking a physical contact with our acquaintances. It is separating us from the real world around us, which I think smothers the development of personality of...
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...strategy so that is can enable the company to achieve those goals. Innovations Personal computer (Microsoft Operating System) Inhibitors: Before Microsoft OS especially Windows, PC’s were not user friendly and people had to be fairly technical in order to use them effectively. Which inhibited the distribution of the PC’s, also they were quite expensive. Enablers: The dream to put a PC on every person’s table. Advantages: Revolutionised the world from a technology perspective. First adopter / innovator advantage: Yes, Microsoft has a major portion of the PC market for decades and this still continue currently. Internet Inhibitors: The internet was developed out of the need to collaborate with multiple communication networks; again it was inhibited by the lack of technology and network infrastructure. Enablers: US Government had a need to improve information flow and communications. Advantage: Made the world a smaller place and allows people to communicate easier First adopter/innovator advantage: No know owns the internet but people have used it to start businesses first such as Google,...
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...pollution, and say that it is the worst evil in the world , I still believe that it has greatly changed our lives for the better as we hardly imagine what would happen if we went for a day without technology. Technology is very popular in our daily life thanks to its advantages. As we know, firstly, technology in household helps people do the housework. For example, housewives do not need to wash manually, but they can use washing machine. Another reason why I advocate the viewpoint that technology has made the world a better place to live is that it makes the world smaller. Nowadays people can travel faster and easier to other places by car, bus and air-plane, and see many new interesting things around the world. In addition, they communicate with people in different countries through the Internet and phones, which saves them lots of time and money. But the most worthwhile benefit technology has brought to us is that it makes us healthier and happier. Clear progress in medicine, use new technologies to diagnose and combat diseases make therapy more effective. It allows us to cure serious diseases such as cancer and cardiopathy. Statistics show that life expectancy is getting longer. In Europe, for example, today life expectancy has climbed past 80 and people are glad to be alive; the longer they live in good health, the happier they feel they are. So, as we go forward into this ‘magical future’, will technology make the world a better place to live? Experts say it will...
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...The World Is Flat Flattener Information Technology Essay The World Is Flat is an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity. Globalization became more prominent during the last decades. Friedman argues that globalization made the world smaller and flatter, allowing all countries to take chance of the available opportunities equally. As Friedman describes in “The World is Flat” there are three eras of globalization and ten flatteners which made the world smaller, making it easier to communicate and share our knowledge. This paper deals with the flattener number 2 i.e.; “When the NetScape went Public” and associated developments after 2003 till date. Background Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. In his famous book “The World is Flat” he identifies three eras of globalization. The first era, called "Globalization 1.0",between the years 1492, when Columbus set out to discover a new trade route to the New World, and 1800, made the world fall in size from large to medium. During this period, the strength of a country was based on the number of horsepower or the number of steam engines owned, compared with other countries. The second period - "Globalization 2.0", between the years 1800 and...
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...was a step forward from the Arpanet. It was developed in the early 1970s as a method of transferring data over Local Area Networks (LANs). Its emergence is usually attributed to Robert Metcalfe, who wrote a paper with his assistant David Boggs entitled ‘Ethernet: Distributed Packet-Switching for Local Computer Networks'. The next advancement was the creation of the internet. A major step forward in 1986 was the NSFNet (National Science Foundation Network), created as the backbone of a university network. Even in the 1990s, people had to sign an agreement with them in order to access large parts of the public internet. Tim Berners-Lee (whose parents were both mathematicians on the Manchester Mark 1 project) is the man responsible for the creation of the World Wide Web (WWW). He saw the potential of hypertext coupled with the internet and in August 1991 he created the first ever website, which has been archived here. From this point onwards, the internet and WWW took on a life of their own. Their own huge advancements made progressions in hardware all the more important. It has indeed made the world a smaller, yet more advanced place. Conclusion What is to be learned from all this? Well, take a minute to think about the enormity of what it took for you to be sat at your computer reading this...
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...How Technology has Changed Our Lives Technology has allowed people to connect with other people at ease, and has made life and simple tasks so much easier. From computers to phones, the world today allows people to communicate with anybody whenever. From listening to music, to surfing the internet, technology has made everyday life more convenient. Texting on phones and connecting on social networking sites requires very little effort. Technology has changed all of our lives and made it much easier to function throughout the day because of it. It is far different from how it was 10 years ago, everything is so much faster and smaller. At one time, every adult had one of those Nokia phones that could withstand a nuclear bomb. With all of the new technology that was coming on to the market, it was difficult to see what else the technology world could do to help improve lives. Yet, things like the iPhone have been created, which has completely evolved today’s society into a cyber-society. People live through phones, but it is not the most important technological creation. In the last couple of years, technology has done things that people could have never imagined in the 1990’s, even at the turn of the century, more people used to do things by hand and face to face. Now, computers are everywhere, even in your local McDonald’s, with internet that works at incredible speeds. Phones answer questions, and also do many other tasks that people never thought possible. Now there is...
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...TECHNOLOGY MAKING THE WORLD SMALLER With television and the internet, more and more people are exposed to more and more language. Even just visiting a chatroom on the internet, there’ll be influence from diverse languages in the chatters’ usernames. Hollywood ensures that English is widespread through movies. Within individual countries, centralized television and expanded communication in general exert a moderating influence that counteracts the countries’ natural tendencies to diverge into multiple dialects. For example, if the United States were suddenly cut off from eachother and isolated, over a period of hundreds of years, the East Coast and West Coast would diverge from eachother linguistically until they were incomprehensible to eachother. But with technology as it is now, that isn’t going to happen. Instead, what dialect does exist, tends to slowly converge. LANGUAGES DYING OUT Some small languages are actually dying out, with younger generations using a more convenient lingua franca instead. In Ireland, for example, the state is doing whatever it can to preserve the Irish language, but the truth is English is used more and more. With smaller languages weakening, the trend is toward a smaller number of languages each with more market share. Of course, these sort of changes take place on the scale of hundreds or thousands of years. People generally don’t want to try learning every language in the world, because there are too many to learn. Imagine, however...
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...Introduction In first look, Globalization, internet & entrepreneurship have a weak relation with each other. But if you observe more precision, you can find many relation between them. For example Globalization accelerates the change of technology. Every day it seems that a new technological innovation is being created. The pace of change occurs so rapidly many people are always playing catch up, trying to purchase or update their new devices. Technology is now the forefront of the modern world creating new jobs, innovations, and networking sites to allow individuals to connect globally. All of Globalization, internet & entrepreneurship terms are very popular nowadays but many people don’t know the real meaning of them and the relationship between them. In this article we try to clear the relations. First of all, we have to define the terms. Globalization The most important term in this subject is globalization. Globalization is only a description, describing the state humanity is in right now. It is not simply an economical term, it affects our whole life. It means that we are all interconnected, and physically we are like individual cells of the same body. It is a state we arrived through our evolution, and it is a state we cannot escape. Globalization doesn’t have a clear & brief definition but according to business dictionary globalization means “The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration. Globalization implies the opening...
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...Globalization provides tools to become more productive members of society. It is a way of understanding how other parts of the world function. We access this information through a variety of sources such as, databases, information technology systems, computers, smartphones, internet, and social media. Many of the products and services we use today are created as a result of globalization efforts. Different countries in different regions of the world specialize in different aspects in the production of everyday items. In the effort to lower costs of products, different parts of products are made around the world for a lower price which benefits us as consumers. The spreading of globalization has resulted in many occupations that are outsourced to foreign countries due to the fact that cheaper labor can be found worldwide. The Role of the Internet The creation of the Internet has greatly contributed to Globalization. The Internet can be show to have played a role in triggering the wave of Globalization that we continue to see today. Internet has had a very large impact of international business, its success and how it is conducted. The Internet can also be seen as responsible for the growing trend of outsourcing. Prior to the creation of the Internet sending and receiving information was a slow and difficult process. Information could not be simply posted and made available to everyone. Sending information required a...
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...of the Internet There is no denying that technological advancements bring about social change. In today’s society, nothing has made a greater impact in this regard then the internet. The internet is defined as a global system of interconnected CPU networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link several billion devices on a global scale. This network consists of over millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The internet has made the entire globe, in essence, just a click away, with a multitude of information being brought to your fingertips. It is exceptionally difficult to picture today’s societal, economic, entertainment, information, academic or business sectors operating without the use of the internet’s resources to connect to people worldwide. The internet has become vital, simplifying the search for information or resources as well as carrying the extensive range of said information resources, such as website information and domain names, to support social interaction through file sharing, emails, web applications, telephone services, etc. According to Bill Stewart’s article, The Living Internet,[1] the origin of the Internet dates back to research commissioned by the United States government in the 1960’s to build a robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks. There is no consensus on the exact date when the modern Internet came into...
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