What has accelerated globalisation?

Question 1

name some factors that have influence and accelerated globalisation

Answer 1

• internet
• telegraph
• railway
• social networking
• mobile phones
• steam ships
• fibre optics
• electronic banking
• jet air craft
• containerisation

Question 2

define ‘a shrinking world’

Answer 2

world is shrinking due to developments in technology and transport that has see an unprecedented space-time compression. since the invention of the train, it has been much easier to transport goods and people around the globe

Question 3

define ‘space-time compression’

Answer 3

travel advances means it feels like a shorter distance, space seems smaller, time is shorter (as doesn’t take as long to get there)