Is the world actually flat or have we just made it
seem smaller. I have just finished reading excerpts from the book The World
is Flat by Thomas Frieldman. He has told me his ideas and how all of these
ideas affect our world. He presented a total of 10 ideas. The top to that stuck
out to me the most were outsourcing and offshoring. Outsourcing is where
companies send work to other countries and have them do the work. There were a
lot of pros and cons with this. Positives being that the work can be done faster,
allows your company leverage in growth, and finally accesses to other
resources. But the negatives to this could be it cost a lot of money and it
sends jobs away. The other idea was offshoring; this is when companies take
their business and go to a different country where they can produce products
for a minimal cost.
In this book I agree with the things he is talking about I just don’t like the idea of shipping our companies out to different countries and having them do the work for us. But I think that if I weren’t for all this technology we would be lost. The steroids of the computers are great too because this is how we communicate. The thing that surprised be about the flatteners was the part about the Berlin Wall. So after the wall was destroyed the Internet started up. So I guess we have that to thank!
I’m excited to get further in the Flat Classroom. As of know I loved watching and reading everyone’s handshake projects. I’m excited to start the project with people we don’t know I’m just scared that it will be confusing. I was really interested in the international people from this project. My questions were how they communicate with us. What is their native language? Can they understand everything we say? But anyways I have really enjoys the project so far and I would really enjoy doing a Skype session with everyone!
So what have you enjoyed so far about this project? And also, what did you learn about the book?
