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Everyone throws around the word "globalization," but what does it really mean? Also, can they stop throwing it? It's hard to catch. Just throw a baseball like a normal person, weirdos.
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- 00:03
Transportation technology has grown leaps and bounds there are
- 00:08
trains that go more than 200 mph, some jets routinely break the sound [Trains goes through a station platform quickly]
- 00:13
barrier, lonely little robots are crawling around on Mars, grown adults are
- 00:19
rolling around the city on scooters and well... Except for that last one we think
- 00:23
it's safe to say that transportation technology has advanced. On the other
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- 00:28
Just as energy technology isn't all about powering fancy gadgets, [Scientist switches on a robot]
- 00:34
transportation technology isn't all about going super duper fast. Though that is
- 00:40
cool... Just ask anybody who's ever broken the sound barrier. Alright well transportation
- 00:45
tech is really about remaking the world map over and over again. And we don't
- 00:52
just mean drawing better maps because well that would be cheating. We mean
- 00:56
making the world more connected place in other words globalization. Yeah it's [People talking on the phone from around the world]
- 01:02
a word we hear all the time mostly when people on 24-hour cable news networks are arguing
- 01:06
with each other. But seriously everyone throws that word around people say it
- 01:10
when they notice their t-shirts was made in China or when you know Arab
- 01:15
protesters are using Twitter. But what do these two events have in common what [Arab protestor using a laptop]
- 01:20
word could possibly be big enough to incorporate everything from Japanese [Footage of video game]
- 01:24
video games, to immigration in the U.S., to agriculture in Uganda. Well we're
- 01:30
going to be amazingly brave and attempt to define globalization while connecting
- 01:34
it to transportation technology. That sounds boring it's totally not. Remember [Crowd look disinterested]
- 01:40
only boring people are bored, unless they're listening to their aunt tell
- 01:44
them the same old story about her bunion surgery.. That's dull for even the most
- 01:47
agile of minds, but back to transportation. Transportation technology has built
- 01:52
massive empires, Roman Britain we're looking at you.. It's also generated
- 01:57
fabulous wealth through trade and exchange, which changed the way people [Money falling from the sky]
- 02:02
live their lives. Transportation is everything it was the first humans
- 02:06
migrating Out of Africa to the rest of the world
- 02:09
yeah with a long walk but hey, they had thousands of years to do it.
- 02:13
Transportation was also ancient merchants trekking the 4,000 miles Silk
- 02:18
Road across Eurasia and even the eight hours place to fly across the Atlantic [Woman sat on a plane]
- 02:23
today. Well the history of transportation is a wild and woolly surprising ride.
- 02:28
Well unless we put seatbelts on our harnesses on our horses, or you know just adjust our unicycle seat
- 02:34
you know if we want to be quirky.. [Man with clown wig on a unicycle]
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