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James B
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Writing this review proves Mr. Friedman's point in his thought-provoking book, "The World is Flat." One of the things flattening the word, drawing people across the world together in a more level platform for collaboration and competition, is the ability of more and more people to create their own digital content and upload it on the internet to be accessible by the rest of the world (like wikipedia, or this review). Mr. Friedman is an excellent journalist and his book is full of...

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jmadigan
  • Rated 2 stars

The world is flat, but this book is not. It's Thomas Friedman's ginormous examination of globalization and the forces that drive it, starting with the end of the last century and continuing up to about 2:15 yesterday afternoon. The book traces the antecedents and consequences of global communication, outsourcing, and exportation of culture in the last few years, with an eye for excrutiating detail. Friedman is overly fond of creating supurfluous terminology for the sake of creating...

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  • bibliocrazy

    bibliocrazy said:

    I have to read this book as a Summer Reading book for 9th grade. I'm thinking about reading it with my mom so I can understand it better because we will have tests on it during the first week of school in August. Does anyone have any suggestions to understanding it better?

    posted Tuesday, May 20 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • XeKo T

    xeko t said:

    to prepare for 21st century (Paul kennedy)

    posted Tuesday, April 15 2008
  • XeKo T

    xeko t said:

    to prepar for 21st century (Paul kennedy)

    posted Tuesday, April 15 2008
  • Zadkiel

    zadkiel said:

    It felt redundant.

    posted Thursday, January 17 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • arti j

    arti j said:

    good one ,must read it

    posted Sunday, December 23 2007
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