THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY 

IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

              It is probably an understatement to suggest that technology has changed the way that business is done in today's world. So many technological advancements have occurred in the last couple of decades, and even greater innovations seem to be on the horizon. The information age is in full force and nearly every business or organization has a digital component. Whether this trend is positive or negative may never be determined but it certainly is different. 

Whether we "need" certain items is irrelevant to the general public. People buy technology because it has become a part of the culture, even if it does not product anything productive. Rather than trading crops or energy, people are trading technological tools and information.

Technology has caused communication to change drastically, both on a personal level and a global level. It seems that everyone today carries a cell phone, and many people almost feel lost if they forget their phone at home. Email and text messages have also changed the way that people interact on a daily basis. Sometimes the technology is so entrenched, that people will send an email to a co-worker who is sitting five feet away. Granted, technological communication has helped connect distant people in an efficient manner, but critics still worry that people have lost that "human" touch.

Technology has made national and international commerce a much more feasible reality. Today, people and businesses can buy and sell with people all over the world. In past history it might have taken months for a letter to go from one party to another. Now, an email can reach someone in seconds, and a transaction can be completed with the push of a button. While this is terribly convenient for some businesses, it does make some people impatient when they actually have to wait for things. Without historical perspective, people can lose touch with how much power and convenience they have at their fingertips.

Finally, technology has changed business to the point where the technological tools are more than just mechanisms for doing work. People have grown addicted to their technology, and when things break or "go down", some individuals literally do not know what to do with themselves. It will be interesting to see how humanity "develops" over the next decade or two. Technology is wonderful, but humans are still social creatures. Will they continue down the road of technological addiction? Or will they have a re-awakening where they turn off their machines every once in a while and just enjoy the silence? Only time will tell.

Korawee Panyasen Presentation

CIRCUS ELEPHANTS

I watched the circus elephants show after finish the show I wandered why the huge elephants were enclosure by the big chain but those elephant didn't even break the chain away although they could break it easily. I n another enclosure the baby elephant tethered with the same size of chain, he was trying to break it away and believe that he could break the chain away and be free one day.

      This story reflects to the human life. But I am going to talk about the life between adults and teenagers by compare with the story of baby elephants and older elephants in the circus, They were done with the something by tethered in enclosure. But one thing is different is the thought of baby elephant could reflect teenagers who are on the growing period, they are fully with curious and want to learn a new world they never seen, they try to seek for the new thing for themselves, they want to try things they 
never know of it, but they don’t even think that things they want to try it might be good or bad because their fully curious let them by do not know that is right or wrong. when they are not allowed to do, they will try much more on the other hand, the older elephants reflect all those adults, they got much enough things they passed it before, even thought, they gave more experience and they don’t even try to find something new because they have done with that, that’s why they didn't try to break away, they know it already, and adjust themselves.