The writer, Thomas L. Friedman by the word “Flatteners” mean that nothing can be separated from each other because everything in the world is interconnected with each other through technology.

1.      The Collapse of Berlin Wall: on 11/09/1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed. In Friedman’s opinion, this event changed the world. He considers it a symbol as a general global shift toward democratic governments and free-market economies. After this, India changed its economy from a centrally planned economy to a free market economy.  Also after six months, Microsoft published Windows 3.0 which popularized personal computing.

2.      Netscape:  it was 8/9/1995 when World Wide Web was created. Before that, using the Internet required considerable computer expertise.  In the early 1990s, a scientist created named Tim Berners-Lee created a programming language for writing WebPages. It allowed users to store and share things. Netscape was available for every operating system like Microsoft, Apple and UNIX.

3.      Work Flow Software: Work flow software is software that enables workers in different locations to work together efficiently. Friedman gives the popular children’s program Higglytown Heroes as an example. The writers work at home different places far from each other.

I cannot imagine how our life would be now if these changes didn’t happen completely agree with the idea. I think it shifted our daily life. Now we can do things much easier and faster

The writer, Thomas L. Friedman by the word “Flatteners” mean that nothing can be separated from each other because everything in the world is interconnected with each other through technology.

1.      The Collapse of Berlin Wall: on 11/09/1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed. In Friedman’s opinion, this event changed the world. He considers it a symbol as a general global shift toward democratic governments and free-market economies. After this, India changed its economy from a centrally planned economy to a free market economy.  Also after six months, Microsoft published Windows 3.0 which popularized personal computing.

2.      Netscape:  it was 8/9/1995 when World Wide Web was created. Before that, using the Internet required considerable computer expertise.  In the early 1990s, a scientist created named Tim Berners-Lee created a programming language for writing WebPages. It allowed users to store and share things. Netscape was available for every operating system like Microsoft, Apple and UNIX.

3.      Work Flow Software: Work flow software is software that enables workers in different locations to work together efficiently. Friedman gives the popular children’s program Higglytown Heroes as an example. The writers work at home different places far from each other.

I cannot imagine how our life would be now if these changes didn’t happen completely agree with the idea. I think it shifted our daily life. Now we can do things much easier and faster

The World Is Flat

While I was Sleeping

Thomas Friedman, the American genius writer, in the first chapter, While I was Sleeping, in his book, the World is Flat, talks about some facts and identifies some terms, concerning globalization and outsourcing.  Friedman divides human history into three different eras: globalization 01, 02, and 03. According to Friedman, Globalization began the moment that Columbus discovered that the world was round. He also goes further and shows how the stages affect life.  The main effect of globalization on society is acceleration and advancement of trade. In the end of the chapter, Friedman travels through Japan, China and back to America, and talks about different types of business outsourcing. He saw many things that show the phenomenon of business outsourcing, such as Pizza Hut, Epson, HP and Texas Instruments during a round of golf in India.

As it is defined in Wikipedia, “open source” software is software that provides the source code. The source code which is copyrighted by the holder is available to all users. Therefore, the users can edit the software. When people hear the term “open source” software, they immediately think of Linus Torvalds, who founded Linux, a UNIX based operating.

Examples of open source software are Perl, PHP, and Python, which are computer programming languages.  Another example is Linux, which is an operating system. Also, Apache, which is server software, and OpenOffice, which is a desktop application, are examples of open source software

Actually, it is not appropriate to whether open source is better than proprietary software because both have benefits. Open source developers get the software and they are not doing that for profit, which is the sole open source’s copyright. However, proprietary software companies‘main intent is to profit. If they don’t work to protect their product, somebody will steal the software and sell it, in  which case they will lose their money they have invested in and their entire job.