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Globalisation of Technology
What is to be done, O Moslems? For I do not recognise myself.
I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem.
I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
I am not of Nature’s mint, nor of the circling heaven.
I am not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire;
I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity.
I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin.
I am not of the kingdom of ’Iraqian, nor of the country of Khorasan
I am not of this world, nor of the next, nor of Paradise, nor of Hell.
I am not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Rizwan.
My place is the Placeless; my trace is the Traceless;
’Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away; I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
He is the first, He is the last, He is the outward, He is the inward;
I am intoxicated with Love’s cup, the two worlds have passed out of my ken;
If once in my life I spent a moment without thee,
From that time and from that hour I repent of my life.
If once in this world I win a moment with thee,
I will trample on both worlds; I will dance in triumph for ever.
- Rumi
As seen from this poem, technology pertaining to communication and also the growth and expansionist natures of MNCs have allowed for people all over the world to find similar or even identical products in all other countries, for example Microsoft, even though it might be in various languages, the software is installed in every desktop, laptop, or even PDA phones in the world! Other global brands like Apple, Compaq, Sony, Panasonic, Canon are also famous for various technological gadgets, said gadgets being iPod, laptops, mobile phones, plasma televisions, and digital cameras respectively. Included at the bottom is a collage of various global brands and their famous products. See if you can identify them all!
Collage of global technological brands
PS: If you want to find out the brands, just go to the links to the images at the bottom, they are arranged in order by rows, from left to right. HAVE FUN! :D
Apple's iPod and iPhone have especially created an impact in the ever changing trends, people all over the world buying and utilising iPods, as Apple's packaging of the product has been superb, since they have succeeded in advertising the product in such a way that both the old and young are suitable to use it. And Canon's digital cameras need not be elaborated on, most families would own a digital camera, the most common brand being canon, due to its well designed advertisements and the ever improving quality and design of the camera as fashion trends change over time.
Thus, technology has connected the world and brought majority of the people closer to each other, however there is still the existence of the small minority that are suffering away in order to satisfy the demands of goods and products coming from the majority of the population, and these people are those working in the manufactoring companies placed in various countries all over the world, where they may be working under unfair conditions with a meagre pay that is hardly enough to sustain their family. Multi-national companies with overseas factories are generally known as ‘Sweatshops’, where workers are given little pay and work long hours, or are forced into labouring at the factories. As such, a code of conduct has been suggested for Sweatshops.
The terms include:
1. No use of forced labour
2. Freedom of association
3. Payment of a wage enough to sustain a living
4. Provision of safe working conditions for the factory labourers
5. Eradication of child labour
6. No discrimination against any people of appropriate age, race, colour, religion or gender
7. Allow independent monitoring by other external sources that the code is being adhered to.
Credits
Images: X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
Designer: !DENISE_
Software: Photoscape 3.1
Poem: Rumi @ Globalisation For The Common Good
References: Sweatshops @ Globalisation - a key idea in Geography
