Notes on Triple Convergence and The Great Sorting

The Triple Convergence

 

203:     First around 2000, all ten flatteners started working together

Second, people started getting it.

    Third: China, India, USSR all joined in

 

• 204: Convergence I: Simultaneous improvement of complimentary goods, reinforced each other
  

 

• 206: II: People needed time to get comfortable w/ the "horizontal" playing field.
  
  • Like distance ed?
    

  
   

  • The previous model was vertical silos.
    

 

• 179: went from top down to side to side
  

 

• 211: III: Add 3 Billion People
  
  • 182: Prev. it had been NA, West Europe, Japan and East Asia with similar education, wages, workforce size "Gentlemanly competition"
    

  
   

  • 183: Some countries simply skipping a step—like cell phones in China
    

 

• 184: Zippes in India: Generation Z.
  

 

• 185: You can innovate without having to emigrate
  

 

• 229: The other triple convergence:
  
  • com bust (actually helped the world, but scared us)
    
  • 9/11
    
  • Enron
    
  • Other things?
    
    • X-box; 100 channels of tv; reality tv;
      

    
     

  • 198: Politicians in 2004 were not educating us, they were making us stupid
    
  • Now the real IT revolution is about to begin
    

 

The Great Sorting Out

 

• 234: from command and control to connect and collaborate
  
• 238-39: Dissolving of feudal, national and religious id, giving universal citizenships
  
  • (NOW, 1989?)
    

 

• COUNTER ARGUMENT, HERE'S WHY PEOPLE ARE BURNING THINGS DOWN AT WTO MEETINGS:
  
  • BIG PAGES 237-239: Mixed blessing: Bumping up against the world of friction
    

  
   

  • Nickel and Dimed; which are sources of friction we should try to protect?
    

  
   

  • What extent should we lean against the current for the sake of values the global market can't supply? (Religious faith; national pride; social cohesion—copyrights? Worker protections; min. wage—see today's paper)
    
    • (Global min wage?)
      

Sorting Out:

• India v. Indiana: 240: wow. Whose values to protect?
  

 

• 242: Where do companies start and stop?
  

 

• Whose values will govern a particular company and whose interest will that company respect and promote? GM goes, so goes America. But not today.
  

 

• 210: IBM and Lenovo: Would you call this an American company? A Chinese company?
  

 

• 212: Rolls Royce and Germany and Russia
  

 

• 248: Command and Control to Collaborate and Connect:
  
  • Colin Powell and Google and blackberries
    

 

• 213: Amy's job and blackberry
  

 

• 250: Wal-Mart and our conflicting identities. Walk through this one up to page 250
  

 

• 216: When you flatten the world, you take humanity out of life
  

 

• 216: Vioxx example
  

 

• 253: Who Owns what? Intellectual Property:
  
  • Napster; video; Google Books;
    
  • The Blog? The film? Chapbooks?
    
  • What about Amy's work?
    

 

• 218: AOL Passwords, in your will?
  

 

• 255: Death of a Salesman
  
  • 220: Tommy all anyone cares about today is price.
    
  • But fat is what gives meat it's taste
    

 

221: What about politics?

• Wall party (labor and far right social crowd)
  
  • v. Web Party (conservatives in Business and social liberals who want a connected world)