The World is Flat : The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century

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  • Audie Award for Non Fiction Unabridged (2006)
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year (2005)
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The World is Flat : The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century

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ISBN: 9780141034898
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $27.16
Publisher: PENGUIN UK
Date of Publication: 2007-07-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, Politics, Science, Economics, Business, History
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The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization - a flattening of the world the explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connected all over the planet, levelling the playing field as never before, so that each of us is potentially an equal - and competitor - of the other the rules of the game have changed forever - but does this death of distance, which requires us all to run faster in order to stay in the same place, mean the world has got too small and too flat too fast for us to adjust friedman brilliantly demystifies the exciting, often bewildering, global scene unfolding before our eyes, one which we sense but barely yet understand the world is flat is the most timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and its discontents, powerfully illuminated by a world-class writer in his new if its not happening, its because youre not doing it and what happens when we all have dogs hearing the author explores both the benefits and disadvantages of the very latest developments in global communication the emergent popularity of blogging, pod-casting, youtube and myspace enable the modern world citizen to broadcast their views to a potential audience of billions, and the proliferation of internet access to even the poorest communities gives everyone who wants to the tools to address issues of social injustice and inequality on the other hand the technology that seems to improve communication on a global scale causes it to deteriorate on a local scale identifying ours as the age of interruption, friedman discusses the annoyance and dangers of blackberrys in meeting rooms, hands-free kits in conversation and using a phone or ipod whilst driving
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