Discuss the concept of globolisation?
When Alexander the Great expanded his empire that was
globalization. When Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in
search of a better route to the Indies and accidentally found the
new world, that was globalization. When Lucky Lindberg flew across
the world nonstop that was globalization. Each of these actions had
an effect on the entire world and Alexanders actions have affected
us all and yet it has done so over a long slow period of time.
Columbus discovery slowly led to rapid colonization of the new
world that slowly led to rapid revolts and new governments. By the
time Lindberg got lucky time was speeding up and the notion of a
future being someday came ever so closer to the future being now.
Today, this is the globalization we face, what happens in Peoria
affects the world in minutes and what happens in Bath affects the
world in minutes. We are all experiencing the future at a rate
never seen before. We are all connected to each other in a way we
never were. I join wikianswers and answer a few questions and some
time later stop answering questions and people I've never seen in
person or heard their voices, wonder what the heck happened to me.
Thirty years ago, I could only hope to write words read by people
around the world by being published by a global publisher. Today I
post an answer here and I have a possible readership of four
million users across the world and growing. This is globalization
today. My voice is maybe not heard but it is read by people who
never would have read this with out today's globalization.
Conversely, I have access to others writing I never would have had
access to without this globlalization. Stock markets crash
together, wars affect us all in ways they just couldn't have a
thousand years ago. This is globalization.