GEOG 2200 Lecture 2: Week 1 Lecture 2 GEOG 2200 2013 Notes.docx

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The drivers that i spoke about last class impact on: the structure and organization of economic activity globally, state structure and activities, how each of us engages with others, how we, as individual, organize the world geographically. Today we will consider these last two topics. Thomas friedman wrote the book, the world is flat. A brief history of the twenty-first century, in 2007. In it he basically argues that the world has indeed become flat. He basically argues that, through the advances in transportation and communications, more and more people around the world can connect and interact in ways not possible ever before in the history of humankind. But let"s focus on friedman because of the influence his book has had on the way people understand globalization. Friedman (2007:9-11) begins by considering the time-space compression, identifying three great eras of globalization: globalization 1. 0 from 1492 to around 1800, [i]t shrank the world from a size large to a size medium.

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