SOCA02H3 Lecture : LEC Notes Globalization.docx
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Land: first people walked then they rode horses. We started in asia, then during the ice age we could walk around then eventually they ended up in na, south america, etc. Economic (growth of trade, increase in production, etc) Balloons filled with hydrogen crossing the atlantic, after this disaster zeppelin production ceased. Yankee clipper: one of the first to do this. Air technology (with jet engine) developed during wwii. Sonar created to locate submarines underwater, also radar and tv. Then by way of animal- the pony express. Telegraph- strung up wires, sent messages thru morse code. Government bails out multi-million dollar companies because they are too important and hire too many people to fail. Board of directors got rid of him and then replaced him as the ceo. When the company had a really bad time after jobs left. He started a new company named next and he also started pixar. The lightest touch: everything you touch turn to gold.
