The History Connection - The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4833
EAN: 9780312425074
ISBN: 0312425074
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: 2007-08-07
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: 2007-07-24
Studio: Picador

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Summary: Not the easiest read, but an eye-opener
Comment: I actually had to get this book for a college class, and while it isn't the kind of book I would choose for myself to read, it has had quite an impact on my way of thinking.

The world is changing, and those who sit with their eyes closed and pretend it's going to go away are in for a rude awakening. Friedman gives many insights into both the benefits and consequences of having a global communication via the internet, the world wide web, and other technological advances. This is just scratching the surface, but to go over everything in the book would take much more than just a few paragraphs.

Overall, I found it tough to get into (maybe because I was required to read it), but once you get into it, it really makes you realize what is going on in the world today and where we stand as a society as the changes come.

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Summary: Read it or weep!
Comment: Simply put, this is a book that any student of business or politics needs to read to claim currency. It's insightful, controversial, yet raises valid arguments for globalization.

In summary---"You can't put the genie back in the bottle" so get with the program or be left behind.

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Summary: one of the best for human philosophy, value system we live.
Comment: Thomas Friedman shares with us the most updated human value system, Philosophy, we have to live on with passion and curiosity. This book presents the direction of human evolutiion with increased demand for more personal touch to thrive in this automated society. Thank you very much for your humanity.
Hak-Nam Kim from McAllen, Texas

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Summary: Excellent Reportage - So So Analysis
Comment: Friedman is excellent at 'at the factory' reporting on supply chains, outsouring, reporting on the strengths of Bangalore and China, how services are now exported and imported and how all corporations are now effectively multinational. The world really is quite different than it was fifteen years ago and Friedman describes this well. Friedman's analysis of how to 'surf the wave' however amount to little more than bromides. Friedman encourages constant learning, stresses engineering and the sciences, avoiding slip ups etc. It is not the Friedman is mistaken it is that Friedman doesn't develop anaylyses of the trials and tribulations of the 'flat earth' in depth. Friedman seems to be saying both that 'this is paradise' and the 'sky is falling' with the message going back and forth between the two. Friedman's analyses of how to take advantage of and how to avoid the pitfalls of the 'flat earth' are lacking. The first 200 page deserve five stars but the rest is more or less padding.

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Summary: The world will get rounder soon enough
Comment: ....by virtue of the increasing scarcity of fossil fuels. Eventually everything will be made locally (each town and hamlet will have its own cobbler, etc.) A veritable nightmare from the microeconomic point of view.
Amru Albeiruti

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A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller

"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.