Traveling abroad allows me to realize how mobile and globalized our world is really becoming. I am currently babysitting for a family who is vacationing in Cancun, Mexico. Our flight from the U.S. was not even 4 hours long, but we're still in another country, and so is the technology we brought with us. I'm on my laptop and could be on my phone (if it wasn't so expensive). We could also use GPS systems and other technologies from country to country. While traveling, I notice how technologically advanced we truly are, and how mobile those technologies have become.
In class we studied a brief history of computers. A few short decades ago, the few people who did vacation frequently to other countries definitely did not have the same sort of connections we can today to our family and friends back home. If it were 20 years ago, or even less, I would have just told my friends and family I'd see them when I returned from my vacation. Now, we have the technology to plan in advance whether we should chat verses instant messaging, facebooking, Skype, texting or many others. I think this is what leads us to be more globalized as a Universe. Also, with these technologies we are able to leave a country and maintain relationships we started while abroad. For instance, I can keep in touch with the family I lived with in Spain through a variety of ways. Twenty years ago, this was not the case. Now, people have connections to people in various parts of the globe, marking the push to globalization.
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