How technology is reshaping human interaction.

How easy is it to talk to someone half way across the world today? Very easy. Years ago, this wasn't so easy for people. Technology has opened up this whole new world to business men, and to people in their homes. Since the invention of the Internet and Netscape, flattener number one, communication has been completely different. Who hasn't e-mailed before? I am willing to bet that almost every single American and a good portion of other countries population has e-mailed before. It has become a huge part of society today. Not only the Internet, but cell-phones. Not only has technology effected the way we interact, but because of the flattened world people are losing jobs in America. India and other outsourced countries are gaining jobs. When Netscape was born and the Internet expanded across America tons of new jobs started happening. When the dot com bust hit even more jobs opened up. As the world started to go flat, business started to realize that we can get cheaper labor and faster service in other countries. Outsourcing, open-sourcing, offshoring, supply-chaining, insourcing and in-forming have become a huge part of the way American business are run now. That means that people are losing jobs in America. Economically technology has helped America. It has created a flat world where we can outsource and get cheaper and better labor. GE was one of the first businesses to realize how educated and intelligent Indian workers are. They took advantage of the new technology world and started communicating and working with India to make computers. India had a huge benefit from this, major up rises in money when Y2K hit. Doctors in America can have medical reports done in India for 50 dollars, in America it would run them 1,000 dollars. If they need someone in Bangalore to help create animation with them on a deadline, they can communicate and have the job done before the deadline is up. Technology in general has reshaped the business world as we know it. Almost every country now has there own sources of technology. Imports and Exports have made the world a whole new place too. This creates open trade with other countries like China. When China joined the WTO America saw this as a huge advantage and started offshoring to China. Now a lot of our goods here in the U.S are made in China, or some other offshoring country like Thailand, Japan or Vietnam. Technology and the way the world is using it is causing the world to go flat. Countries are now intertwined, we all share and feed off each other, and we can all communicate personally or for business purposes thanks to technology.