Eassay on Globalization Globalization is getting more complex and this change is getting more rapid. The speed of globalization is accelerating at its fastest than ever before, and this is mainly due to the development of technology. The last two decades have witnessed tremendous changes in human's life brought by the technology revolution. With the advancement in transportation, trading has become much easier than it used to be ,and this stimulates the economic integration to a great extent. According to a report, Will Straw and Alex Glennie (2012) have illustrated that globalization has helped lift millions out of poverty. In the developing countries like China and India, economic integration has enlarged their market scale, thus providing an excellent forum for entrepreneurs to do business. Globalization has provided organizations a superior competitive position with lower operating costs, thus those enterprises can gain greater numbers of products, services and consumers. For the developed countries like America and Japan, they have also gained a lot. Above is a brief introduction of how globalization affects the economy, the next will explore deeper into how globalization affect human beings. Information revolution, emerged by the development of computer science, has changed people's life ultimately. The whole world can be reached within a few clicks on the mouse . The days were gone when people need to wait for months to hear from someone. The internet has improved our living and working efficiency to a greater extent, and it enables people to contribute more time and effort in doing researches and inventing new things. The balance between knowledge and resources has shifted so far towards the former that knowledge has become perhaps the most important factor determining the standard of living - more than land, than tools, than labour. Today's most technologically advanced economies are truly knowledge-based. (World Bank 1998) Furthermore, many of the activities that previously involved face-to-face interaction, or that were local, are now conducted across great distances. For instance, international conferences are constantly held to solve problems worldwide. The world is working with joint effort toward a better future.