The World is Flat

Ch01/ While I was Sleeping

A call to achievement for governments, businesses and individuals who must stay ahead of these trends in order to stay viable is Thomas Friedman’s theory test of the influences shaping business and competition in a technology-fueled overall environment.

Friedman’s message in many studies, interviews and statistics is obvious to be prepared because this fact waits for no one. Also, he draws a picture of a world moving faster than most can keep up. Friedman presents the problems we face, and finds possible solutions for them.

The world is flat is a historical and geographical passage that answers the problems that cannot be even defined. Friedman’s analysis of globalization is a courageous attempt at clearing up and understanding the forces driving the flattening of the world, and he declares that the very nature of creature prevents one from having all of the answers.

Finally, the world is flat is necessary to answer or find solutions for at least some of the problems that people face at the time when people become more able to work together, fight and share with others of different religions, cultures, educational languages.

Ch02/ Flattener

1. Collapse of Berlin Wall--11/9/1989:

The event represented the end of the Cold war; it also allowed people from the other side of the wall to fasten together the financial mainstream.

2. Netscape (8/9/1995):

            Netscape and the Web expand the viewers for the Internet from its family tree as a communications average used primarily by 'early adopters and geeks' to something that made the Internet available to everyone from five-year-olds to ninety-five-year olds.

            3. Workflow software:

            The ability of equipments to talk to other equipments with no humans concerned. Friedman thinks these first three armed forces have become a "crude foundation of a whole new global stage for cooperation.