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	• The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 - 616 pages average customer review:based on 1167 reviews view larger image
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It's an Amazing World!

I can't believe I read the whole book! Thomas L. Friedman is fascinating in his exposition of how communications technology is globalizing and, as he puts it, flattening the world. I'm not sure he really needed to drag it out for 630 pages, but he is so entertaining in the stories he tells, especially of global businesses, that a little repetitiveness is easily forgiven.

His is a hopeful perspective paying much attention to India, China, Malaysia, and other countries with large populations of poor people. They are moving more and more people into the middle class, thanks to outsourcing in this country and the technological ease with which people can do business over great distances. Friedman realizes that Americans are going to have to compete more on a global basis and that we will probably experience some economic displacement because of this, but he believes that with better education Americans will adjust and remain leaders in innovation.

Furthermore, the world should be a better and safer place when wealth is more equitably distributed and more of us have a stake in keeping the global economic system going. It is almost as if what socialism and communism have failed to do, technology is going to bring about naturally with an underpinning of democracy rather than totalitarianism.

Excellent book.

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Revealing, informative, valuable

Revealing, informative, valuable. Helps you understand our global economy.

Companies offshore and outsource to affect the bottom line. If it can be cheaply made elsewhere than thats where economics and competition will lead.

The fear is that eventually everything will be made elsewhere and America will lose its ability to manufacture it's own items, either for national defense or for society to function during an embargo.

The World is Flat is great read, the air of cunning and forward thinking rings throughout.

Regards,
Mike

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