Chapter 7: Technological Dimension of Globalization

It highlights the overriding importance of modern technologies. It is defined as the advances in technologies that enable the transfer of ideas and information in the international community.

Technological Dimension of Globalization

A means that enables social life to continue using various techniques
and implements. It is defined as a system taht combines a number of techniques and activities with implements and artifacts, within a social context of organization in which the technologies are developed, employed and administered.

Technology

the modern technologies that have ultimately altered the way the human population tackles global processes according to George Ritzer

1. container ships
2. application of automatic tracking system
3. universal product code
4. personal computers and the internet

Facilitated the flow if international trade as products were transported quickly and in a less costly manner

Container Ships

It encouraged a speedy delivery of products in different parts of the world

Automatic tracking system

It simplified the storage and inventory of products in several warehouses and retail stores across the globe.

Universal Product Code

The most popular among the other modern technologies. ___________ enabled fast data processing and ______ allowed them to be transmitted instantly

Personal computers and internet

considered as one of the most important transformations that the human population has experienced in the last three centuries. It refers to "the dramatic innovations in manufacturing, mining, transportation, and communications and equally rapid changes in the society and commerce".

Industrial Revolution

an offshoot of a long series of developments that preoccupied England in the second half of the 18 century. The creation of cities in the 1750s fueled the beginning of the phenomenon that made its initial imprint in the emerging city of Manchester England.

First Industrial Revolution

It started in 1851 and lasted until offer the First World War in 1917. Compared to its predecessor, the phenomenon absorbed a number of modern technologies that were already available in the middle part of the 19th century.

Second Industrial Revolution

This new Industrial Revolution capitalized in the application of information technology that includes microelectronics, computers, and communications. It emerged in the 1950s and succeeded the Second Industrial Revolution with a different set of technologies that surpassed even the most sophisticated inventions of the previous century.

Third Industrial Revolution

the latest iteration in a series of Industrial Revolutions that occurred in the past three centuries. Unlike its predecessors, it features a new set of disruptive technologies that builds upon the modern innovations of the Third Industrial Revolution.

Fourth Industrial Revolution

It is currently the focus of many advances in modern technologies. Most research and development projects related to modern technologies at the moment are being spearheaded by private companies.

Greater emphasis in commercial value

Five critical trends that explain how modern technologies are progressing in the international community

1. Greater emphasis in commercial value
2. Increasing standardization
3. Greater diffusion
4. Faster development
5. Greater diversification

It is the result of the growing international consciousness to regulate the production of modern technologies. It is slowly getting the recognition of the international community. The reason behind it is directed towards the protection of the international market from the limitations of certain technologies.

Increasing standardization

another notable trend that transcends both the developed and developing countries in the contemporary world. The idea in this context brings these countries - developed and developing counthes-closer together as more and more modern technologies out across their individual boundaries.

Greater diffusion

It presents another important trend in the continuing expansion of modern technologies. Every now and then modem technologies keep on improving and show no signs of slowing down

Faster development

a trend that exhibits how modern technologies are produced and spread right now. A number of private companies in the present time resort to partnership or specialize in the production of the technological products.

Greater diversification

The application of modern technologies in the government that took advantage of the available information and communications technology of the period.

"electronic govemmen or "e-government"

the usefulness of modern technologies was also observed in the area of _____________ amd ___________ that enabled a faster and convenient transatlantic travel between Europe and America.

transportation and communication

It changed fundamentally how businesses manage people, manufacture goods, and serve individual clients. It reduces the cost of handling ground cargos and increases productivity with a fast and reliable system of transferring all of its packages.

automation of systems

unauthorized access to the privacy and identity of individuals or groups

hacking

It is a prominent hacker powered security platform in the United States of America

HackerOne

It refers to the limited access and engagement of people to modern technologies. It discriminates between the "haves" and "have-nots".

digital divide

5 Positive impacts of Modern Technology in various sectors

1. Administration of the government
2. Operation of Business companies
3. Improving the health of human population
4. Providing quality education
5. Safe and reliable communication and transportation system

5 Negative impacts of Modern Technology in various sectors

1. Privacy and identity
2. Limited access and engagemen of people to modern technologies
3. Technology and risk
4. Collaboration and information sharing
5. Security

refer to the critical tools of transmitting information from one individual to another. Jack Lule (2014) defined it as a concept that pertains to "the means of conveying something, such as a channel of communication".

Media

first and most enduring among different stages in media. It permitted humans to develop their own systems of language.

Oral communication

Allowed humans to convey information at greater distances. Requires papyrus and parchment paper

Script

It revolutionized the information sharing in the 15th century. Gave way to faster and cheaper production of text-based materials and made them accessible to less priviledged people

Printing press

It superseded the printing press and brought significant changes in the way information is shared. This includes the use of telephone, telegraph, radio, film and television.

Electronic media

represent the pinnacles on how information is conveyed in the present time.

Digital media

the most prominent among the technologies in the digital media. Considered as the most important piece of modern technology that have influenced the spread of globalization.

Computer

The influence of the media to the evolving process of globalization is generally visible in the three important areas of

economics, politics, and culture

a network of interconnected computers that are spread across different spaces serving billions of people all at the same time.

internet

A program launched by the US Department of Defense in March 2016

"Hack the Pentagon"

A popular development that came with the emergence of the internet in the 1950s.

Electronic mail

Term coined by McLuhan in the 1960s. Defined as "the world considered as a single community linked by telecommunications."

Global Village