Module 9

       

     The dell company has six factories around the globe, Ireland, China, Brazil, Tennessee, Texas, and Malaysia. As soon as you place your order, whether it is online or by phone, the dell suppliers get a signal based on every component in the laptop you ordered. Dell uses multiple suppliers for the components that go in to the laptop so they always have a backup plan if one supplier doesn’t have the component at that time. It is crazy that Dell has a supply chain that has about four hundred companies in North America, Europe, and Asia. There supply chain and the whole building of the dell laptop processes is ran a lot like Walmart’s.  

     Yes, Al Qaeda has a supply chain it’s a mutant worldwide supply chain, it’s not used for profit   its purpose is destruction. They are using the tools of collaboration offered by the flat world for war and destruction. The US Central command call this underground network the virtual caliphate. Al Qaeda leaders use networks so they can recruit members from “Arab afghan” veterans and radicals around the globe. They use the internet to get to us, and to try and get people to help them with suicide bombings.  It makes me wonder if these acts of terror would be as bad if we didn't have technology, it seems like making the world flat we are making it easier for terrorist or evil to destroy the world.  

      Moving on to a different topic, Oil rich countries today are fifty percent more likely to be ruled by powerful people and twice as likely to break in to civil war than countries without oil. The oil curse – oil wealth makes less economic growth then it should, by creating more problems in the poor states then in the rich ones. And further spread the oil curse by causing companies to drill in poor nations.

This module was mind blowing along with saddening feelings for me. It opened up my eyes to how far we have come, but also opened my eyes to how the more we progress and become flat the more we allow the evil in the world to destruct.