1. Author: John Naisbitt ©1994 Zach Allard CS 408-02 12/4/2012

2.  How the growing global economy has forced large companies to split into smaller sub-companies.  A telecommunications revolution needed to take place before a global economy could exist.  Telecommunications include phones, televisions, computers, consumer electronics.

3.  The Telecommunication Revolution:  Four ideas needed to be realized to go global: ▪ 1. Technologies would blend together. (phones/television/computers hybrids) ▪ 2. Strategic alliances between cable, phone, and internet providing companies. (Allows access to information fast and easily) ▪ 3. A need for a global network. (being able connect with any one anywhere in real- time) ▪ 4. Everyone will have a telecomputer. (a device to send and receive voice, data, image and video)  Maps out the revolution of telephones into smart phones and the beginning of global connectivity.