TWC Week 2

The article on “The Colonial Holocaust and its Legacy” shows how Colonialism had served primarily to shape the foundation of today’s society, of which today’s international political and economic structures became the result of colonial history. We were introduced to a new term called “Euro – centric”, it simply means the law that was passed down from Europe.

Next the theory of “The rising star and the falling star” truly tells us how industries as well as countries will either be a rising or falling dominant player through their operation attitudes. That if a company were to close itself up from learning from others, it will lose out eventually. In reality, the prediction of China becoming the next world players could be seen arising. I feel that besides China, the next rising star would be India too.

The idea on firms becoming more socially networked seems to be happening even as I write my journal, because if friend’s referral is already accepted as a mean to recruitment, what’s more for firms to become more socially networked. I agree that firms may soon be socially networked, as most of the people, has many social networked accounts be it LinkedIn or Facebook etc… even I myself have to admit that I too have these accounts.

Many new terms was introduced on America’s world military superiority. It shows how America was able to maintain its military power throughout the years. What caught my attention was that the difference on military planes already considered “old” used by America and how Singapore purchased F-15 (consider new) but was actually older. This definitely shows a great contrast in terms of their military superiority.

If we ever wonder how “Human Development Index” is was actually measured? It basically means the 3 qualities – Health (life expectancy), Income (cost of living) and GDP (gross domestic product). Does this actually measure humans’ qualities of life? Certain it does to a certain extent, however Prof too mentioned Happiness, a very important quality to everyone of us

So how do individuals maximized their own potential? I feel that the Idea of it lies in each individual themselves. I feel that “Singularities and Nightmares”, how extremes of optimism and pessimism about the human future, that everything is changing. The future is unknown but predictable.


The video on millennium development goals, with questions on “what if...”, it tells us rather than waiting for things to happen,  all of us as individuals should stop and thinking. If every one of us could just contribute a little and work together, we could actually achieve the goals and overcome the problems.