Flattener+5

Fiber optic cable- a high tech type of electrical wire that uses glass fibers to send light signals Y2k- a computer crisis that was caused because the computers were set up to store the date and time with six digits like 12/19/99 the big deal was there was not a way to change the year to 2000 because they think if it looked like this 12/19/00 then people would think it was 1900 all over again Interdependence- being mutually reliant on each other Outsourcing- to purchase from an outside supplier or source
 * Vocabulary:**

This flattener was about outsourcing to India and how it has been beneficial to the U.S. The seven institutes of technology or IITs were created in 1951 and connected to the U.S. with a series of fiber-optic cables that allowed connectivity and communication. They created highly competitive schools in India to create highly qualified and knowledgable technological professionals. Y2K was an incident where the world was freaking out over the new millenium and the computers destroying the world, so more Indian techs were made to deal with this. Following this, the fiber-optic boom occured and allowed any service, call center, business support operation, or knowledge work to be outsourced to India for much less money. Then the dot-com boom set in and created more jobs in India for those techs that could use their education of technology, the PC, the Internet, and fiber optics, and it cost less than their American equivalents.
 * Summary:**

Today we are dealing with 3 computer problems like, performance degradation, host identification, and security. Performance degradation is when the speed of our computers slow way down to a point that is not productive. Some times this problem is delt with over seas. The problem of host identification is nobody can really prove who they are online. Security is the problem of how information on the computer is always acceptable to somebody who know how to hack. So there are new kinds of security software being designed to make information as secure as can be.
 * Current Event:**


 * Our Response:**
 * These computer problems are ever rising and more and more is need to deal with them. As a solution to this the outsourced jobs in India (among other places) are employed to deal with these. The advanced training and skills they learn are used to deal with these issues, and exist as a result of the outsourcing that occurred in our flattener. The results of this outsourcing, Y2K, fiber-optic networks, and dot-com boom have paved the way for this issues to be dealt with today and for the future.**