flattening the world

1a. It means germans were united and that flattened the world.
b. windows 3.0 went up
c. It transefered memory cards and dvd's to a computer.
d. It let people learn, explore, and communicate.

2a. It was Tim Lee.
b. It allowed people to create links.
c. It was netscape.
d. Its outcome was high speed internet.

3a. Workflow software allows people to communicate efficiently in different areas.  They work from Chicago, Florida, newyork, London, LA, and India.

4aIt is transeferring information from your computer to a network.
b. Community developed software is done by a team of random programmers that do it for fun  and come together for a big outcome.
c. Uploading represents a flattening of the world by breaking down the barrier and alowing users to communicate.

5a. It saves money and teaches people about other softwares.
b. It is so popular because they get internet really cheap, they are the second largest population speaking english, and India has a lot of internet related classes.

6a. It is when a country moves its production from its home country to another country.
b.China's wages impact others wages throughout the world
c. Companies can cut costs dramatically by moving to another country.

7a. The store scans an item and after it is scanned, it sends a message saying that they sold it and demand has gone up.
b. Many of the employee's feelings are overlooked and workers are not paid fairly or treated fairly. Also many illegal immigrants are hired.
c. It's alright I guess, things are cheap.

8a. They have also become an insourcing company

9a. It makes information easy to access and ddisplays thousands or even millions of results.
b.People can look up a lot of information about you.

10. They combine all photo, video, sound, and text into one category

b. They shift power from institutions over to the individual.

Flattening the world does not mean much to me. I don't think that by doing this we will flatten the world.  I'm really just doing the assignments to get points. I really dont care much about the competition or flattening the world, I just dont want to fail.