The world has been getting smaller ever since the first people decided to take a horse or a floating object and venture outward to a place they had never been to before.
In time, trade routes developed, and people began to exchange goods that had been produced hundreds or even thousands of miles away from where they were being consumed.
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However, that was thousands of years ago, when the world’s technology was very primitive. The world has evolved to the point where the Internet has erased all boundaries.
The very nature of the Internet, often called the cloud, has reached beyond being merely technological. There is now an almost metaphysical significance to it. The world’s borders are becoming less and less resolute in the face of the changes it is bringing about.
Evolving Business
For one thing, the American business models have undergone some incredibly sweeping changes already. Granted there was a time in which the outsourcing of production to other countries, coupled with our frequent trade deficits, was making it look as if the United States was about to all but sell its power to do anything on its own.
The nature of being highly interdependent, however, is bringing back some of America’s ostensibly lost glory. Consider that American products can often compete with those of other nations on a quality basis and through superior branding, and you will see that the stars and stripes have as much power to create as they ever have.
Outsourcing Increases World Economy
And while a lot of people think that when American businesses outsource job functions (such as research, customer service and IT) to workers from other countries they are weakening our entire nation, this is not the case. While it is true that many information age jobs which are equivalent to the proletariat of old have been outsourced, this will actually have a positive effect over the long term.
Consider that when people have jobs, no matter where they are, they have money. And while American companies tend to pay these foreign workers meager wages by American standards, these wages are often princely sums by local standards. And when the people suddenly find themselves in possession of disposable income, their demand for high end products (which may very well be American made) is bound to increase.
While the process is extremely slow to come about, in time the outsourcing of jobs will benefit both American companies and their workers through increased demand as the worldwide income gap begins to narrow and disposable income begins to grow.
Living in the Clouds
Cloud computing has brought about a lot of positive effects, it has only just begun to do so. There has never been a time in human history in which as much information exchange could be accomplished with such unbelievable ease.
You can have your company be based in America, targeting an American audience, while your accountant works in Poland, your web designer works in Thailand, and your systems administrator in Chile. And who knows where your graphic designer might be working out of; either way, you’re all able to communicate through the cloud.
