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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by Thomas L. Friedman (Author)
Textbook Details
* Paperback: 672 pages
* Publisher: Picador (July 24, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0312425074
* ISBN-13: 978-0312425074
* Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
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Textbook Description
“One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal,” the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis, and answering the questions he has been most frequently asked by parents across the country, this third edition also includes two new chapters–on how to be a political activist and social entrepreneur in a flat world; and on the more troubling question of how to manage our reputations and privacy in a world where we are all becoming publishers and public figures.
The World Is Flat 3.0 is an essential update on globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks–environmental, social, and political, powerfully illuminated by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree.
The World Is Flat 3.0 Review
Our world has come a long way, not just since the proverbial “beginning of time,” but in the last 20, 10, 5 and even 3 years since this book was first published. In “The World is Flat,” Thomas Friedman very consciensiously and enthusiastically paints a picture of the detailed landscape of the current world through the eyes of business, technology, cultural and social development. I have traditionally found the topics of globalization, outsourcing and economics dry and rather boring, but the author brings them to life and makes them relevant to each of our lives in a way that is truly captivating. There are countless examples of this in the book, from the impact of the usage of the personal computer to a creative lemonade salesman at a baseball game to Big Macs vs. pizza.
This book filled me with ideas, thoughts and concepts that I had never before imagined and I came away excited about the possibilities that exist in my own hands. I was really struck by the conversation about the urgent value for Americans to exercise their right brain: to do what you love, to invent, create, relate, express, empathize. The point Friedman emphasizes is: “Now that foreigners can do left-brain work cheaper, we in the U.S. must do right-brain work better.” This idea made me think of two other authors, Ariel & Shya Kane, who have had a huge effect on how I relate to my life and approach my personal well-being, and whose books also introduced concepts that also completely blew my mind.
The Kanes’ technology of Instantaneous Transformation, the phenomenon that occurs when you are truly present and directly engaged in your life and causes problems, stress, worry & fear to dissolve, is another contributor to the flattening of the world. They address the gap between the things that we do, learn and know and what it means to truly ‘be’: certainly a skill unique to each person in the world. If you enjoy “The World is Flat,” check out the Kanes’ books, Being Here: Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment and How To Create a Magical Relationship. I HIGHLY recommend them all!
Thomas Friedman is at his enjoyable, engaging, and irritating best in this new book. This work is a continuation and expansion of the 1999 work, “The Lexus and the Olive Tree,” in which he describes and praises the forces of globalization. After the intervening years of focusing on the olive tree (terrorism and the politics of the Middle East), he once again turns his attention to the Lexus (technology and how it is interconnecting people and knowledge pools).
This book has all the stylistic quirks that make reading Friedman so irritating. The title, “The Earth is Flat,” is the new metaphor for globalization and interconnectedness. Even though “flatness” is a dumbed down metaphor for a complex process that is transforming the world, this book should not be dismissed as middle-of-the-intellectual-road equestrian excreta, as another reviewer has suggested.
The metaphor of flatness is used to explain the current phase of globalization. There has been a leveling of the playing field – sorry, another metaphor – in which countries such as China, India, and members of the former Soviet Union are entering the global economy. This means that another 3 billion plus capitalists will be competing in the global marketplace. Needless to say, this will have huge consequences for the industrialized countries of Europe, Japan, and the United States.
Well before I read this book a was a firm believer that outsource offered no benefits to the US, and it was simply taking jobs away. This book provided me with overwelming evidence that outsourcing is does have a negative effect in the short term, or long term only if you try to be resistent to the idea and that outsourcing should be seen as the a oportunity for to improve ourself as a country. But the problem lies in that fact that many US workers have simply become accustomed to the same jobs not wanting to improve or change and expect that the world would do the same. Outsourcing and globalization are coming and nothing and nobody will be able to stop it, resistance to change might delay it, but will not stop it, because it drivin by the ambition of human wanting a better life.
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