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HIST 285 - Technology in Historical Perspective

Department of History & Politics

 

“Globalization”

 

I. Introduction

 

A. Advocates and Critics

 

 

 

 

B. Facsimiles

 

 

 

C. McDonalds

II. Convergence vs. Divergence

 

 

 

 

 

The Limits of Convergence:
Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina,

South Korea, and Spain
Mauro F. Guillén

III. Facsimiles

 

International standards and Geographical relocation

 

A. Precursors

1. 1930s - William Finch

- 1935 Patent for

Finch Telecommunications Laboratories

 

 

 

 

B. A niche product

 

1. AP Wire

 

 

2. Military

 

 

 

 

 

C. CCITT

 

1. “Handshaking”

 

 

 

 

2. 1980s – Digital processing

 

 

 

 

D. The move to Japan

 

1. Matsushita

 

 

 

E. “Fax! Programme”

 

  Program guide.

 

IV. McDonald’s

 

A. Critics

 

1. Jose Bove

 

 

 

 

2. McLibel suit

commondreams.org article

B. Advocates

 

1. Tom Friedman

 

  - Wiki -List of countries with McDonalds franchises

 

 

C. The Russian case

 

1. 1990 - The world’s largest McDonald’s

 

  Audio slideshow

 

 

 

2. Cold War, Glasnost and Perestroika

 

 Moscow McDonalds

 

3. The McComplex in Moscow

 

 

 

 

 

4. “Voting with their feet”

 

 

 

5. The reverse effect

 

 

 

V. Conclusions

 

A World Without Borders: What is Happening with Globalization (2002)

Darwin’s Nightmare (2006)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mBZBpL1KiA&feature= related