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This blog is for Watauga High School students taking the Scientific and Technical Visualization class. We are reading and discussing Thomas Friendman's book "The World is Flat". Watauga High School is not responsible for the content of any student entry or any links that might be added by students.
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In this blog we will be discussing the book ,The World is Flat, By Thomas L. Friedman.
The World is Flat
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- Discussion for Friday February 1, 2008 -"The World...
- Flattener #4 - lead by Josh and Joseph
- What is your reaction to flattener #4?
- Summarize Flattener #3
- Flattener #2
- Flattener #1
- "The great challenge of our time"
- Homesourcing
- reading 1/9/08
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- "The World is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman- Jan 7,...
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This flattener is all about the y2k bug in 2000. This bug is where computer calenders and clocks on computers were only designed to go up to the year 1999. Because of this people though computers might be crashing like crazy. So a mass re design/programming was occurring on old computers and new ones to come. This programming got outsourced to India and china mostly because it could be done more efficiently and cheaper there. THis is the first time when American software companies started to collaborate with Indian workers
Flattener #5 was all about how we first started using cheaper labor for grunt work in other countries like India. It started with the
Y2K bug when they needed massive amounts of cheap efficient programmers to reprogram older computers for the new year so they wouldnt crash. Companies like GE started setting up in those countries to take advantage of the cheaper cost of production.
Y2K-"The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug or the Y2K Bug) was the result of a practice in early computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000."- Wikipedia. People were going insane over this problems. The U.S. and the U.K. spent alot of money getting ready for midnight on December 31 1999. Then year 2000 came and gone along with the threat of Y2K, and nothing happened to computers. The only thing that happened was we lost alot of money.
Now jobs are being outsourced like crazy to India where people are actually good at what they do. And the scary part is that they are excited about working. And is "Flattener #5"
In this flattener it talks the Y2K scare. Y2K was when the computers were not going to work because the computers would not be updated. But overseas workers worked to save the computers from crashing.
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