Human interaction and development in both humanism and the flat world are significant to how humans act in these revolutions. Human interaction is something which helps a revolution because people need to interact with each other to be able to change the future. Development obviously contributes to a revolution because humans develop new ways of doing things and thinking, which starts a change in people overall. Humans need to change over time to learn new things and how to do them. Revolutions help people learn and gain knowledge of what kinds of changes are good for them and what kinds are not going to help develop the future.

Something that impacted both humanism and the flat world is development. Humanism developed when people started to focus on other goals which they had for their themselves and which they wanted to accomplish. These people started to realize that they could have something to live for in their lives other than just to focus on getting to heaven or to the afterlife. This meant that humans were actually living their lives the way they wanted to and had more to live for. Individuals found new ways in which they could view their time on earth and make it worth something, discovering what would make themselves happy every day they strived for that as well as still being involved in the church and wanting to get to heaven. Development with humanism helped people to figure out what it meant to each and every one of them to be a human. Each person thought about how they were considered human other than just by their physical appearance and body. Humanism developed new individuals with new life goals and renovated thoughts about themselves. Development impacted the flat world with its increasing technology. Technology is basically what the flat world is about and what made the flat world. Technology allowed humans to develop so many new connections and in turn allowed them to also figure out who they were as indiviauals. The flat world made people need to be willing to try something new which could eventually help them or control what they wanted to do with their lives. These many people need to be accepting of change and revolution in their daily lives. Development in the flat world broadened the ways in which a person would do their daily activities and go about their daily lives. It broadened many categories in which people could begin to shape and mold their futures and see where they were going to fit in in the ever changing world. The developing flat world also made people everywhere in the world more equal becasue of the rapidly growing technology and communication people could have with each other. Ways that development helped both humainism and the flat world is by looking to the future. Humanism made humans make goals for themselves to accomplish in their lives to make them better and happier. The flat world helped humans set their futures, by being able to discover what they would need to do to get the lives they want, with communication. Development also helped humanism and the flat world with ways for people to express themsleves as individuals and actual people in their competitive world.

Human Interaction impacted both humanism and the flat world. Human interaction with humanism helped people to realize how they were all individuals with different lives that they needed to live. These people all had one thing in common, which was their religion and worship and what they beleived. All of these individual humans could come together to strive for one thing , which was to get to heaven, and could then have their own meanings of their own lives to focus on. Human interaction affected the flat world in many, many ways. Competition in a flat world is magnified because every person is competing with the whole world to get the future they want. Technology is overpowering in the flat world and could be an advantage to some people, which makes people work that much harder to accomplish what they want for themselves. Communication is much easier in a flat world, where you can discuss anything you could ever want to with anyone you could ever want to. Human Interaction also means collaboration in a flat world, where people can help each other that much easier. Both humanism and the flat world have human interaction with classification of every person. Everyone classifies themselves in some way as a human being and in some way, every human is going to be classified with another human being, which is the way that humans think.

While the flat world and humanism are very different in some ways, they are that much more similar in other ways. By looking at humanism and the ways in which humans went about changing their lives for themsleves, we can possibly anticipate what changes are yet to happen in out flat world. Humans have wanted, and always will want, what is best for themselves and will do what they need to to make their lives what they want them to be. Humanism started a revolution of which people realized they needed to change their lives gradually for themsleves to get the future that they wanted someday. We expect, and know, that people today in our flat world want to be happy with their lives and their futures. These same people also know that they have competition in trying to get to their future with so many other people as well. What we can know about the flat world is that people are going to do anything that they need to to get the future that they want for themsleves.

Dr. Faustus

Doctor Faustus sells his soul to the devil by signing a contract with his own blood. By doing this he has limitless knowledge and dark magic. Faustus realizes by the end of the play that he was not happy with the bargain that he made. It may have helped him a few times, but he realizes that he could have had a much more pleasant life if he had not made the bargain. I believe that the term 'Faustian Bargain' means that you believe you can control your fate by not doing any of your own work to help yourself. It may mean that you regret the bargain you have made because you realize that you would have been better off without it. Before Lucifer takes Faustus with him, Faustus pleads not to go and I believe that in that time, he regrets the bargain. You do not want to regret anything at the end of your life, but that's what Faustus did.

The World is Flat (6)

This book really made me start to think about what is happening around me and in my life everyday and how I do not realize it, but it will change the way that I someday live my life. Technology and the flat world have already changed how I communicate with friends and family, and now, how I do my schoolwork. It affects how I may purchase some products and how those products get to me. The flat world and technology affect how my friends connect with friends. Some in a good way and some in a bad way, for example, MySpace is a bad influence of the flat world on my friends. There may be someone who my friends meet online with whom they do not want to 'connect with' in our flat world. Is my future 'untouchable'? I do not know if what I decide to do with my life will be untouchable or if I may have to change what I want for myself in my future because of what I want being 'untouchable' for me. We are all living in a quickly changing and accelerating flat world and I will embrace it and go along with it as long as possible. Only so far can I embrace something which could be affecting what I want for myself to move forward in my life: before it starts to control me to an extent where I cannot stop it to control my own future.

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In some ways the flat world is a positive thing for America. People can connect with people so much easier in a flat world and people rely on technology a lot. Outsourcing is a positive thing for America because it saves companies money while doing the exact same work. Outsourcing could also be viewed as a negative thing for America because by moving work to another country, Americans are losing jobs. Supply-Chaining is a positive thing for America because it means collaborating among suppliers, retailers, and customers to make something valuable for everyone. For the flat world to really be a positive thing for America, the people need to be willing to change the ways in which they live in order for the new technology to help them and be a good thing for them. Everyone in America has to collaborate to make the flat world become a positive environment for them. Yet, sometimes people do not want change in their lives.

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Potential negative consequences to a flat world could be that too much is done with technology. People start to rely on technology to do everything in their lives, which in some cases people might not be as connected as others because of where they live or what resources they may or may not have. Another consequence which could be either good or bad is everything being virtual and done on the internet. People can already talk on the internet, pay bills, check the weather, watch t.v. and movies, research, and shop. Where is the line going to be drawn? If you can do all of this online with technology, how much longer until no one does business with a person or company face to face, instead of computer to computer? Someday when everything is being done by technology and broadening the flat world, there will be people who will loose their jobs. The people who are (as Freidman describes) the 'Untouchables' will be the exceptions to this. The flat world with these things in mind may not be such a good thing.

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The way the Freidman describes convergence in that more people have the power to access the flat world more than anyone ever before. Although Freidman is not saying that the flat world is making people more equal. In chapter three, The Triple Convergence, Freidman says that the ten flatteners need to work together to create a flat world and to get the full effect. For new technology to work and help someone, and be able to flatten the world, everything relating to and surrounding it needs to change to work with it and make it better. Convergence, and The Triple Convergence, means there are new players, on a new playing field, developing new habits for a collaboration, as Freidman describes it.

The World is Flat (2)

2) Technology is reshaping human interaction personally, inter-nationally and economically. You could show your thoughts and ideas to anyone, anywhere with the world wide web, when the internet emerged in the1990's. Netscape helped make the internet available for everyone. The Fiber Optic Cable made it possible to send things miles and miles to people all over the world. Business could be done with someone all the way across the world. People could soon run their business online without having to be in person to communicate with your customers. Technology is reshaping human interaction inter-nationally and economically with outsourcing. Companies send their work to be done in another country. Offshoring also flattens the world where you can move your company to another country where it can make the same product with cheaper cost to the manufacturer. Insourcing helps companies to ship and move their products faster. The way it has helped flatten the world is by having UPS and other shipping companies delivering straight from the manufacturer. Some companies do not even work with their products anymore because of outsourcing, offshoring, and insourcing. Informing reshapes human interaction by having any and all of the worlds knowledge at your fingertips. Google helps with this also. Informing is searching for knowledge.