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The World Is Flat - Thomas L Friedman (CD)
Title: Title: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Author: Thomas L Friedman Genre: General Social Science Format: CD, 6 CDs, 7 Hours (Abridged) Synopsis: "When they write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter 'September 11, 2001 to March 2004,' what will they say was most important? The attack on the World Trade Center and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of PCs, telecom and workflow softwares into a tipping point that allowed India to become part of the global supply chain for services the way China had become for manufacturing--creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations (India and China), giving both nations a huge new stake in the success of globalization, but also flattening the world in a way that requires us all to run faster in order to stay in place? Has the world gotten too small, too fast, and too flat for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner? "What I am sure of is that the world has gone from round to flat. Once I realized that, a lot of things that I was reading on the front pages of the newspaper and in the business section became much clearer to me. This book is an effort to share this framework with readers in the hope that they will be able to make better sense of the bewildering world unfolding before their eyes. It is an attempt to explain how this flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century, what are the up-sides and down-sides of it for countries, companies, communities, and individuals, and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. --From the Introduction Review: Kirkus Reviews Of globalism and its contented. New York Times columnist Friedman (Longitudes and Attitudes, 2002, etc.), always glad to find possibilities for hope in the most tangled international trends, offers a mantra to accompany the outsourcing of jobs in the brave new transnational capitalist world: "The playing field is being leveled. . . . The playing field is being leveled." The phrase is that of a Bangalore-based captain of industry; Friedman's gloss, which seems merely rhetorical at first but turns out to have some legs, is: "the world is flat." Which is to say: new communications technologies and business strategies have erased certain obstacles between nations and peoples in at least the realms of knowledge work and intellectual capital. India, for instance, graduates huge numbers of accountants each year who can readily be put to work doing the grunt labor of preparing Americans' tax returns, leaving it to the erstwhile U.S. preparer to do something wonderful and meaningful with his or her time-estate planning, say, or portfolio management. Friedman is sober-minded enough to recognize, of course, that not all homegrown preparers are Warren Buffetts in the making, and that some people will not thrive when their jobs wander acro