Back to reading the world is flat and in this weeks reading its starts with the Triple Convergence. This is similar to globalization 1, 2, and 3.0. While globalization flatten the world and made it easier for everyone to step up the stage. Convergence is how it was done with what was flattening the world at the time. He goes into detail in the book about his personal story of how he bought a ticket on Southwest Airline and showed up early to get priory boarding by showing up early to the airport just to find out that the As went to the people that checked in from their home and printed their ticket from home. In convergence one we had to talk to a ticket agent to get a flight. Then in convergence two with the help of the PC from globalization, he now finds and buys the ticket himself. Lastly in convergence three he now finds the flight, buys the ticket and prints it all from home never interacting with someone from the company.

Later in the section it talks about India and Indiana. Were the state of Indiana puts up a bid for an upgrade of their computer systems and the best bid comes from a company in India 8.1 million under a New York company. So they go with them but as usual politicks gets in the way and they didn’t want a overseas company doing the work so the bid had to be broken down into smaller parts that local companies could handle costing more tax payer money. While its great that it created jobs for the local area  it cost the state more, and the India company was hiring locals to help anyway. So I think the government parties to help their personal gains exploited the India Company. 

The last big topic is intellectual property. The idea that someone creates a idea and gets to profit from it, but at the same time you want other to be able to use it as well to be able to improve upon it. This is a tricky one cause while its great to create something and make a profit off it, it needs to be shared to advance the world and help all