Dialectical Jpournal #7

       I.            Title: The World is Flat (Dialectical Journal #7)

    II.            Citation: Friedman, Thomas. “The World is Flat.” They Say I Say. Eds. Birkenstein, Cathy, Russel Durst, and Gerald Graff. New York:  New York/ London, 2009. 421-440. Print.

 III.            Summary: this article “The World is Flat” is about how before when Columbus discovered “the Americas” he reported back to the King & Queen of Portugal that the world is round, but upon Friedman’s voyage to India he discovered that the world is flat. Due to the advances in technology. As well as the way they spoke, dressed, and the names that the Indians had taken, the Indian appeared to be Americanized.

 IV.            Quote: “Was this the New World, the Old World, and the Next World?” (page 422).

    V.            Response: Does anyone really know what world we live in today? I know I don’t, because our future, will just end up being someone else’s past. Finding how Friedman took his voyage to India in search of today’s current treasure of technology to see why they had become so much more advance than the United States made me wonder how far we have come in our modern society.

How in our “New World” we have more our flat screens telling us where we are, where we are going, and how to find more information. It make you wonder if all those centuries before they were right to tell us the world was flat, because now living in our era of technology it look to be true.

Now that we have no use for anything anymore, such as actual books, cartographers, or anything else that connects us to our “Old World” because all we are use to now is looking at our nice little screens.

Thinking about how far computers have come and how many more advances that have yet to be made in the mechanical sciences, do you ever wonder if everything we have will be obsolete like all the other things we have already casted aside?