Globalization

Technology has really been the reason globalization exists. The idea of someone that lived a hundred years ago coming back to life to see how we communicate with people would be pretty cool to see. It so easy for anyone to communicate to someone else from the United States across the ocean to Great Britain and beyond that in the rest of Europe like Spain, France, Russia etc. How has all this been possible and has it been beneficial? For starters technology has been a great help. The idea of getting messages across long distances was a real obstacle in the past but now you can make a phone call to almost anywhere in the world, send an e-mail, or even face chat with a simple creation of the web cam. What i think drove this idea of easy communication was the industrial era, where United States was growing as an industrial nation. The products it was producing needed to be sold else where since the products were not being developed any where else yet and many people in the states already had these items or could not afford them themselves. Besides trading with other countries is an essential part of our economy, like it used to be though. Like we all know time is money so the time it would take to communicate with foreign buyers was costing producers money and we all know those people don't like to lose money. Which caused great demand for newer communication methods, which would lead to globalization. It's been good though because now I can pick up the phone and call my grandma that lives in Mexico.