Pissed over a B ticket.

Module 5

            Well after a much needed break I am back to reading the flat book, I must admit at first I wasn't much of a fan but the author has interesting perspectives and stories to back up his thoughts on the change in technology. I imagine with how fast this develops that much of what he is talking about in the book was already dated old news by the time it was published. Much like his airline ticket story, which is the inspiration for my title, technology and service can literally change overnight without much notice.

What is the Triple Convergence?

            The best way I can answer this question in how Friedman explains it one being a melding of all of the flatteners mentioned in this book up to this point, businesses and individuals alike adopted all of these and implemented them in their daily lives and some even streamlined most processes to get a better result, making business or daily life faster and more efficient. Second, of course being the streamlining and making better use of all of these flatteners in our daily business and personal lives, also that other major Asian and European countries making use of these flatteners and connecting with the western world like never before especially since the end of the Cold War. Third, now that this playing field is leveled out people started to realize the benefit of new technology, connecting, plugging in and playing, downloading and uploading. Friedman talks again about southwest realizing how the world has become tech savvy and the use of millions of networked computers had made it easier to deliver to the customer in a faster and more efficient manner. I would like to think of it today in a the game world as cloud gaming, a big thing that the video game industry is pushing this generation because even with all of the badmouthing between companies I think they could all agree that we are moving from a disc based age to a digital age in home entertainment. So with the use of the cloud I will soon have the ability to share my digital library with my gamer friends in an instant. I suppose this could be a good and bad thing, good being convenience, bad being creating ultimate laziness, soon enough I would not have to leave the couch.

India vs. Indiana

            This is a crazy story and interesting that it was something that had actually happened and I can see how politicians jumped on this like flies on shit just to play the blame game in their next campaign. Truth is there was a legal bid of a job to upgrade the states computer systems to prevent the outsourcing of Indiana jobs, and a major Indian company known for outsourced jobs had won the contract, talking about some bitter irony. Who exploited who? This was not that clear as he had left it to the reader. In my opinion, I don’t know how much India was the exploiter or the exploited, I suppose exploiter, and they exploited the taxpayer’s desire to save money, but doing that IT jobs were lost to India. I will admit this is a hard thing to read between the lines, I would almost say taxpayers were exploited by politicians desire to make one party look better, on one side you have the job creators, and the other the money savers.

Intellectual property and its importance

            What is intellectual property, by doing a little internet research here is a definition: a work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc. This is important because people are constantly sharing new creative ideas on the internet that can quickly be stolen and patent as another’s original work, so there are now laws to govern those properties from being stolen and passed off as someone else’s work, of course this happens a lot in writing classes, even though unethical, at some point a student gets pretty desperate for a good grade so at times will steal from someone else’s writing and pass as their own.