Essay 5

Jaquelyn Hernandez

IST

9/30/2012

Essay 5

            In pages 200-259, in The world is Flat, Thomas Friedman talks about what Triple Convergence is, the India and Indiana exploiter and the intellectual property. Friedman uses these subjects to show that the world has become ‘Flatter’. The world has become flatter due to the fact that everywhere in the world things are ending up at the same level. Nearly all countries are obtaining the same information and going to the same playing field.

            The Triple Convergence is a junction of several steps that had made the world flatter. The beginning step was the unite of Technology around the world. By uniting all this technology it flattens the world in a way that it allowed everyone to play on the same level. The second step was allowing all technology to ‘talk’ to each other, all technology was connected. An example of this is using cellphones like computers by being able to check our emails or going on Facebook. As the Triple convergence continues on to the third step, many new people are joining the technological world. Other countries are now joining the playing field with technology. The important of the Triple Convergence is that it is showing the growth of technology and how people use it.

            During the India V.S Indian story in Friedman’s book the Government part of Indiana and the India Company won a special contract. The India company found an approach to give reimbursement unemployment to employees. However, Indiana government did not feel as though they were being demoralized by the Indian company on how the company was acting kind towards other businesses and the community.  

            Friedman also began writing about what Intellectual property is and how it is important. Intellectual property is protection over important ideas or information that is held within a company. Without Intellectual property other companies would take information from other companies, thus meaning that companies will not strive forward do to the fact that every company will become the same because all information will be known. However, this would cause the world to become even flatter if all companies had the same information. It would level the playing field in a very negative way in my opinion.