“If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it’s all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It’s had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we’re much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War 1 for example” (Eric Schmidt). In the Mini-Q What Was the Underlying Cause of World War 1, millions of combatants and civilians died lost their lives all because of an misunderstanding. It all started because of an revolt in the area known as the Balkans; Serbia wanted to independence from their mother country Austria-Hungary so when the Archduke came to town a rebellious group killed him and his wife hoping to spark a revolution. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed