Technology And Globalization

Globalization as we know it in the 20th century is the increasing relationship between the countries in the world, and the countries’ trade and communication. Globalization helped people to study and understand other cultures. The definition of the term “Globalization” has increased in a really fast pace and not too long ago, the term “globalize” was first included in the Merriam Webster Dictionary in 1944. Technology helped globalization in expanding as it has made it easier to communicate with other members and made the delivery easier. Technology never stops growing; therefore, it is helping globalization grow by the year in an incredibly increasing rate. According to research conducted by the Globalization of Technology Center (2011), technology created new ways of transportation and communication in a way no human being have ever predicted was possible for example: electricity networks, airlines, internet, and highway systems; those new ways helped fashion what our ancestors did in the late twentieth century and made it for more intensively that railroads and steamships. Information technology has contributed to globalization in there important ways: social websites, access to knowledge, and online marketing.
Information technology has contributed to globalization by introducing the social websites. Programmers used their creativity and their wide knowledge to create a huge network of social websites on the internet that are used all over the world and continuing to grow by the second. Moreover, they created online games that included people playing from all over the world which brought people closer to each other. Social websites helped people communicate with random strangers like blogs, where a group of people with the ...

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...id and made it much easier for us. Technology never stops developing, scientists and programmers are doing their best to come up with new ways and ideas on how to make transportation and communication easier and more efficient. It is arguable about how technologies have increased the knowledge and how people think nowadays. Social websites and forums dramatically increased through the last 10 years or so, people are getting addicted to write about their daily lives online or make a digital diary instead of using the normal diaries because it helps them share it with the world. Online markets have been used more efficiently than before as there was a development in the transportation industry due to the increase of knowledge and technological sources.