The World Is Flat: Part 6

Brandi Barnett
IST 1100
2/16/13

Hello again,

Free trade is trading for free. Kidding, of course. Free trading is actually a trade between nations. David Ricardo a  came up with the idea of free trade. Ricardo thought it would be an economic advantage if we could trade goods with other nations. Ricardo made it free so that it can be easily to import and sell. I think free trade is very important in this never ending flat world. It allows countries to sell what other countries are selling and maybe even improve it a little a sell it. As long as people demand the goods and service there will not be a problem with free trade.

       A new middler is someone who is middle class. To make it in any world you need to be untouchable where jobs are not outsourced or digitized. Friedman explained what a good middle class job is and what you need in eight categories: 1) Great collaborators and orchestrators must be able to translate the service of a global company for the local market. 2) The great synthesizers will be able to combine and distribute. 3) The great explainers will be able to explain what is happening in simple terms. 4) The great leverages will design computer programs that will work smarter and faster. 5) The great adapters have a high degree of skills who can apply said skills in any situation. 6) The green people (aliens!) are environmental and will become more efficient. 7) The passionate personalizers that will had their own touch on a boring job. 8) The great localizers is business people that will be able to compete globally with high techy stuff.

       CQ + PQ > IQ is a certain set of skills to learn that describes what the right stuff is to have for future employers and educators. CQ is the curiosity element and PQ is the passion element of a skill and of course IQ is the brainy element of all. It is very important because it teaches itself to become the successful person you are set out to be. You need to be passionate towards others in an environment show that you care about whatever you do. Have curiosity about new and different things explore. Discover what you are passionate about. These two are very important. Intelligence what in the world is that.

       I enjoyed this very much. I thought the CQ, etc. would be about computers I was like not again. It was very interesting to read it and how intelligence really is not the important like we are lead to believe. It is up there, but not like CQ +PQ.

The World Is Flat: Part 5

        Hello, fellow bloggers. After, taking a week off from the book I kind of missed it, shockingly. I wish I had done the interview but I simply did not have time. It was a crazy week. I would have liked to gain more insight in the IT world. Well this week it is all about the triple convergence, who is exploiter and exploited party, and the intellectual party.

      The triple convergence is where all the events the author wrote about that creates an even flatter world. The first convergence is when computer base generated programs made a difference in peoples lives. It shaped and mapped the world as we know it. People could now communicate via e-mail and other ways. The second convergence is the business aspect of it where certain skills were provided to people. They are essential in this world. The third convergence actually comes from other countries. They help shape this world by joining the global market place and making a huge boom in the economic area. They provided a lot of workers that we could not. The triple convergence is very important in this ever growing world. Without computers how would we connect to people all away around the world?

        The case Indiana vs. India comes the question who is the exploiter and who is the exploited in this epic battle? Indiana needed to upgrade their computer system, so they outsourced an Indian company who had won a bid. India wanted to use their own employees and use local people from Indiana. In my opinion India is the exploiter and Indiana is the exploited. Indiana went out of their to help India and then not even get appreciated, while India was just using them to get what they wanted. 

      Intellectual property is a law that protect you and a certain idea of products and services that you may have. It gives you rights. Someone could claim ownership of a certain idea that you have, but since you have property rights (patent/trademark) you can shut them down quick. It is very important when it comes to businesses alike. It protects their business from money hungry people.