When I first started reading "The World is Flat" I never realized i could look at the world
like that. When I look at technologies and innovations of today I did not see them like Thomas
L. Friedman, I saw them at just being inventions to to make everybody's life easier. Of course all
of the inventions and innovations do make things easier they also made things better. I used to work
Wal-Mart unloading the trucks full of product and I never once thought about how the product got to
my store, I knew that it came from the distribution center and that people picked the orders but
I didn't know how they got those items in their order. When someone take an item off the shelf
and it gets rung up at the register the computer lets the distribution center know so they can refill
and keep that item in stock. I always thought people went through the store and ordered whatever
they wanted. I never realized in depth of how a lot of these companies work and how they
outsource a lot of their departments to different parts of the country and world. I have experienced
most of these innovations but never realized that I did at the time. I have called tech support, paid a
bill over the phone, sent an item to be repaired, worked for distribution centers and retail stores,
and many others, I never knew the inner workings of these innovations that these companies
use to make their business flow. I feel I have learned a great deal by reading "The World is Flat".
When I think about science fiction I think about things that authors, movie makers, and
other talented people dream up to make their stories great. I did not consider the they could
be a look into our future. A lot of the sci-fi movies that I have seen in the past, I think have
shown some variation of what our world looks like and operates today. Someone has to dream up
all these great ideas that are in movies, games, books, and T.V. shows and if you can think it
I think you can make those thing become a reality. When I watched an older science fiction movie
now its fun to point out some of the thing that we have now in real life. The book " The World is
Flat" and the rest of this course has taught me to look at things with differently and has shown
me in depth how a lot of companies work.
