Chapters 3, 4, 5

In chapter 3, the author talked about his experience with Southwest Airlines (which I thought was hilarious). He talked about going to the kiosk to print his ticket to try to get on the plane first (globalization 2.0), but there were people that had printed their ticket from a home computer (globalization 3.0). I remember when that technology was “new” and then wondering how long ago this book was written (2006)! Technology definitely saves time.

Talking about new technologies, the first time that I heard about Skype was listening to Clark Howard on WSB radio. I remember him saying that this service is going to change the world, although most people don't know it yet... (more like American's don't know about it yet)! American's are far behind on a lot of things. In this example, someone from across the globe came up with the technology/idea and an American company (eBay) buys them out. In my opinion, this country has turned into a country of consumption. We lack in education and have outsourced most of our manufacturing.
This leads me to Chapter 4 when the author talks about “Who Owns What”….I believe the author is right about the legal barriers of intellectual property. How can one person’s intellectual property be protected when someone else uses that person’s invention to replicate and distribute another product? Who benefits…obviously the one that got the new product! This book is probably available in an international edition and the author gets no benefit.

I also thought this was very important to talk about…the author tells a very sad story about a soldier that was killed in Iraq and the family wanting his Yahoo email password so that they can remember him in his own words. Yahoo refused and said it was in there policy that the account contents terminate upon death. The author had pointed out that more and more communication is digitized and it will all be lost unless someone sorts it out. I think I will start taking the time to write out more letters to my family and friends instead of dropping an email now and then, or at least have duplicate copies. One thing I remember from my business law class, document everything!

(I posted now after realizing I only saved it)