1946 or today things do change

So after read this old story it funny to see that even back then society had a problem with over sharing. While the computers or as they are referred to by the story Logics made it easy to find out useful info on anything you wanted to know much like the computer have today for our generation. These logics are connected to a tank that connects them to all the other tanks, sound a lot like the internet and Google. Want to find something today just up on a computer and open your web browser and search Google and you can find almost anything you want. Even things that you want to keep hidden from other show up, just like the wife showed in the story. She was  part of the problem, she told her husband to fix it but while he does she was going to look out other before it gets fixed and hopes that no one looks her info. She like most people in our society today wanted to find all the dirt on everyone else but didn’t want anyone to see anything about them. Its much like social media today, everyone laughs and makes fun of others, while only posting a select few thing here and there that make them look good, and un-tagging themselves in anything that makes them look bad. So now to fix the problem is to restrict and censor info but that takes time to sort though and see what should be allow to view and what should be hidden from the public eye. While shutting down the system and figuring out all this would work, society has become to reliant on computer/logics. Shutting them down would also stop everything else at the same time. Its like the creation of anything that came before. Power for example, people were able to live and get thing done before, but now that we have it we can see do thing the old way.

The building of a dell and its supply chains have worked together with others (HP and IBM) in the creation of a collaborative unified code of social responsible practices of manufacturing around the world. While supply chains with a scenes of responsibility is a great thing for the world consumer. Not all supply chains are a great thing for the open market the world has come to enjoy. Al Qaeda is a supply chain of death. They work like any other supply chain only they provide chaos and death. Their beliefs are shared and create new bombers as the last one is used. This supply chain works on the openness and trust that the world as come accustom to, attacking this creates a fear that hinders the advancement of the open shrinking flatting world. Supply chain are the key to advancing the world. They allow companies to get thing as needed. The better the chain the cheap a finished product can be created. This also allows for new countries to advance and meet the needs of the new supply chains and be part of the flatten world. But for this to happen those counties need to be on they’re way up. But for this they need power economic, political, and electrical. For this there is a cheap way to do this till they can advance to something better. This cheap source is oil. But oil is also a curse.   First there is the limited supply of it and everyone trying to get it for this reason. Then it’s a cheap fuel that can power any nations regardless of its technical advancements or lack of. But unfortunately it has a major draw back of harming us and the planet with its pollution.

Computer changing the way to educate

Computers the way of the future. But computer have been around from when I was a kid. Sure they weren’t as common as they are now that everyone has their own personal computer. As a kid my family had one that use the big black floppy disks and ran on DOS. With them being around for so long they had to changed the way things were done in the past as well. When I first started going to school I remember having to go to the library and looking up a subject in the reference section on those little white index cards telling you what book had the info you wanted and were it should be in the library if it hadn’t been checkout or miss placed on the wrong shelf or worst wrong section. But in middle school things started to change for the better. Computer were getting cheaper that public schools had enough of them that they were useful and more so the internet. That made looking up a topic easier, having all the information for a report the teacher had me doing. It made life easier, plus I didn’t have to try and find the book before someone else checked it out from the library. With me that’s a good thing I work well under pressure, so naturally I'm also a procrastinator so getting the info at any hour and not worry about the book being there is always great. But that’s not the only way computers change education for me, the way a turn in my reports changed as well. Before I had to hand write them a few pages but now I had to type them up, which was nice for me as I cant spell to save my life and the red swingy line that Microsoft put in Word is my friend. Without spell check my reports would have looked like they came from a kid with a simpler vocabulary. With them all nicely typed I just had to printing them up double space so the teacher could add their red little notes in the space in-between. Then it got even easier when I didn’t have to print it out any more just email to him or her. Those were the easy days of high school. But computer have now made it that I can go to school from anywhere. I'm now in the military and that makes me move and travel quite a bit. Which I love to see new place, with computer and every college/university allowing me to take on-line classes like this one I don’t have to worry about going on a temporary assignment in another state or around the world. If a deployment comes up I know that all I have to do is let my professors know that Ill be off line for a week or so for travel time and in processing and anything else while I get reset up, which most of the time I just get the work done early. So my MacBook is my classroom. It doesn’t matter if I'm at work, sitting on my living sofa, or deployed half way around the world. As I have a internet connection I can go to school.

Trading the world away

Free trade is the trade between counties without import taxes. The every agreement that is place between US and China. While this is bad for manufacture jobs or anything that can be traded. Its not a problem for America as whole. America is an Idea-based industry where jobs are created and sold to everyone around the world at the same time. Like software that once created it can be sold to everyone, while services jobs can only be sold to one person at a time.

The new middler is the person that can work a supply chain 24 hours 7 days a week over 7 continents. There are also other that make the new list like the great explainers. These are the people who can look at a complex process and concepts, brake them down into smaller simpler ideas than can be taught to the next group. These are the teacher of the world, whether they work in a school or in a company.

CQ+PQ=IQ the formula to finding the next generation of workers. Its simple curiosity quotient plus passion is greater than IQ. So when looking for your next employee its better to find someone that is curious and passionate over some one with a high IQ, because the person with passion and curiosity will get farther with their own willpower and own motivation. Than the person that has a high IQ with no drive. 

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

Whats in a job

This week we had to interview someone in the computer/network field. Well it so happens that L-3 communication was on campus this week looking for students for co-op and internships. I met with them and found out that they are a Department of Defense contractor and create the devices that allow the armed force to rely information around the world to the heads in Washington. During the interview they said that they are looking for students in computer science for software development that goes into the hardware that they sell. running a various platforms from C, C#, C++,  and java. Just to name a few.  The starting pay for these jobs was great as well, for a Junior its around 19 and hour and a Senior can look around 22 an hour. Plus working with them part time (20 hours a week) they offer benefits of medical, three weeks of vacation and tuition reimbursement . All nice for a student , but that last one is great for those who dint get a scholarship and trying not to enter the working world in debt. So with hearing these great things about this company I looked up a little about the company. For one they are big with hiring veterans, great for me when I retire from the Air Force. They have employer people are happy at so much so that they had have a good amount around 45% that have been there for ten years plus. One was celebrating 40 years with them. The benefits are what you would expert from any major company. All in all the company looked to be a place that would allow growth and mobility with branches internationally. Or if you prefer they are just down in Salt Lake a quick ride on train