Thomas L. Friedman presented an extremely interesting lecture about why the world is "flat" on May 6, 2009. By flat he means that the whole world is connected. Friedman gave examples of why the world has become like this using "flatteners". One main flattener is work flow. Work flow really was just a category for all the software and all the standards that allowed work to flow. One of the most important examples of work flow was Microsoft Word. Today, someone in China could write anything, then send it to my email. i could edit it then send it right back. This could happen anywhere around the world that has this kind of technology. Other examples like this allow people to work together on anything from different parts of the world. This shows with the creators of Firefox. Firefox has two original creators, each from different parts of the world, and have never even met each other!
As our class talks about this subject more and more, and as I try to isolate certain parts of the "flatteners", I realize that all of these flatteners mash together. They relate to eachother one way or another.
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Work flow for me is so important for anything such as informing or the other five to occur. Although it is a very vague definition it has many components that are key to our daily lives. I use email and texting pretty much every day. Without this, I wouldn't be able to communicate easily for school or just socially. Businesses have become so much more efficient due to work flow. I don't like the saying that the world is flat because it makes me think negatively about the idea of globalization. I think that the interconnectivity that occurs because of work flow is extremely important in our daily lives.
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