What is global communication and how has it promoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years?

            Global communication is the process of sending out information to anywhere in the world. It has promoted globalization through advances in technology, culture, business, and education world-wide in the past ten years. Being able to communicate globally has helped people share technological and medical breakthroughs with other nations. It has allowed groups of people to share their culture and ideas through mediums like the internet and television. It has helped businesses make deals with other companies across the world.

            Over the past ten years, the invention of the internet has allowed for faster communication. Information about technology can easily be passed to another person and stored on the internet. For example if a doctor needs to know how to cure a disease he can easily e-mail a colleague in another part of the world for advice. Or he can access a medical database on the internet, in the past it was much more difficult to share medical databases without the internet. Another example is navigation, planes pilots and boats can use radio signals to communicate with people on the ground who have information about dangerous weather.

            The internet has also allowed countries and groups of people to share their culture with the world. For example, a country can make their own website and post about their history, their styles, and food, and more so people anywhere in the world can see it. Another method that has gained popularity in the past ten years for sharing culture is the television. People can now view television from other countries via satellite TV and see the culture of those countries through their TV programs. Before, people needed to actually visit a country to understand its culture.
  
            Global communication is especially important for international business. Companies can become business partners with any other company in the world easily via telephone, e-mail, and the internet. Another way business has benefited from the internet is advertisement. Certain websites with a lot of traffic can sell advertisement spots on their web sites and have millions of customers view it. International business in the past was probably largely done over the phone, which was a problem because day time in one country was night time in another county. Now someone can simply send an e-mail and wait for a response.

            Education benefits from global communications in a few ways. Students can easily access any information on the internet for learning purposes, and their teacher doesn't even need to be in the same state because they can take classes online. In the past, students needed to go to a library or talk to their teachers directly in their offices. Now a student can simply ask a question with an e-mail or use Google to find information they need to study.

             So global communication helps people share technology much faster, people can share their culture much easier, businesses can easily do international trade and advertise to much more people, and students now have a much broader quantity of information than students did ten years ago.

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