About the Book: World Is Flat The Globalized World In The Twentyfirst Century
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