SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - North American Free Trade Agreement, Nikola Tesla, Abstract Window Toolkit
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Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations and 49 are countries. Wal-mart is the world"s 12th largest corporation; it has larger annual revenues than the gnp"s of isr, gre, and pol. The top 200 corporations combined sales are bigger than the combined gnp"s of. The poorest 80% of the world"s pop account for us trillion in economic activity, compared to us trillion for the world"s 200 top corporations. Hindenberg, and zepplin technology-name of a balloon -made their way across the atlantic-dangerous and highly flammable because of hydrogen gas. 1940"s first planes to across the atlantic-sea planes, could land on water. End of 50"s ship travel -ships carry bulk, size increased, tankers -vessels, are for pleasure cruising. Communications technology-the rapid sending of information -human runners were used to carry messages (greeks) -pony express-1870"s carrying messages by ponies. Speed of people can move is directly related to how messages can be carried.
