ATechnological Innovation
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Onward & Upward:
Technological innovation making the world flat as in “hot flat and crowded”
This photo is helping show the point of “flat” in the reading of Hot, Flat, and Crowded by having a ton of people all with the same pieces of modern technology. What flat is meaning is that everybody is caught up on modern technology and the world is technologically flat because of this wide spread amount. This is a bad thing because it raises the demand for our resources that we need. But this is also a good thing because it helps create a unity for communication all over the world that helps anyone from anywhere communicate
The technological innovation of nuclear weapons is changing the world. Countries are learning how to make this weapon and this is a bad thing because it makes every country more dangerous and makes the possibility of a nuclear war increase. This rize in weapons also creates an arms race to see who has better weapons and technology to give them more power.
One major technological innovation was the transformation from the phonograph to the phonautograph. The phonautograph was the first invention ever to record sound. This was revolutionary but it couldn't play the sound back. After this the phonograph was created and was able to play back the sound that it recorded unlike the phonautograph.
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Nationalism:
Onward & Upward:
When nationalism becomes a driving force state violence follows. i.e Hitler, Stalin, China, North Korea.
The rise of the modern world saw many things happen, when city states became countries the rise of nationalism started to rise. Nationalism is defined as: patriotic feelings, or extreme patriotic feelings. When nationalism rises in a country state violence usually follows, this can be seen in WWII germany with the rise of Hitler, his nationalism caused an attempted world takeover. In China and Russia it lead to labor camps and state censorship. In North Korea it lead to deity-like dictators left over from the colonisation of Japan, and with their nationalism came a rouge nuclear entity.
It can be seen today, because the only way Trump is so popular is because he is a nationalist 
As with hitler one of the ways Donald Trump became so popular is because he is a nationalist. His campaign slogan is “make america great again.” which is nationalistic in nature. He also is so popular because he wants to try to make america more whitewashed, by sending away immigrants, refugees, and closing the borders off from our mexican neighbors. His racist comments also show a sense of nationalism because he doesn’t want to include everyone.
Nationalism is also a great contributor to the conflict in WWI
The main reason why WWI was so deadly is because it was started by each country being too prideful, and having too many alliances, immediately sucking in each country attempting to fight for the honor and pride of his or her country. These nationalistic alliances would also cause many deaths in the war to come.
Hot, Flat & Crowded:
Nationalism is somewhat declining with the rise of globalization
With the rise of globalisation, the flattening of the earth has made nationalism somewhat less important because you can connect with anybody anywhere and have instant communication regardless of what country you are in. With the rise of technology everyone is better able to be connected to everyone else making what country you are in pretty irrelevant.
Cite:Crotty, James Marshall. Trump & Hitler. Digital image. Huffington Post. Huffington Post, 27 Feb. 2016. Web. 28 Sept. 2016. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-marshall-crotty/comparing-trump-to-hitler_b_9334668.html>.Global Citizen Festival Poster. Digital image. Kontrol Magazine. Kontrol Magazine, 27 Sept. 2016. Web. 30 Sept. 2016. <http://www.kontrolmag.com/hm-global-citizen-for-sustainability/>.
WWI allies map. Digital image. Pinterest. Pinterest, n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2016. <https://www.pinterest.com/pin/435230751458456804/>.
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