Summary and Analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Based on the Book by Thomas L. Friedman
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About The World Is Flat 3.0 by Thomas L. Friedman:
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Thomas L. Friedman imagines himself a modern-day Columbus, exploring a new world created by a global economy. He travels from Bangalore to Bentonville, interviewing key figures in the rise of globalization, outsourcing, offshoring, and supply chain management.
Like great explorers before him, Friedman spins tales of vast wealth and freedoms made possible by advances in technology. But here, too, there be dragons: foreign competition, educational failures, governmental incompetence, and the specter of 9/11 and terrorism are the ugly flip side of crowd-sourced technological wonders.
The World Is Flat is an essential work for anyone interested in the impact of globalization.
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Contents
Context
Overview
Summary
Timeline
Cast of Characters
Direct Quotes and Analysis
Trivia
What’s That Word?
Critical Response
About Thomas L. Friedman
For Your Information
Bibliography
Copyright
Context
Thomas L. Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist, is the author of the bestseller The Lexus and the Olive Tree, a book that examined globalization in the 1990s. The discussion spawned by that book spurred him to write The World Is Flat, which expands on the concepts introduced in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, deepening the reader’s understanding of the multiple forces driving our increasingly global economy.
Friedman spent time traveling the world and talking to business leaders, resulting in The World Is Flat. Not content to simply let the book age, he updated it with new material in 2006, incorporating the rapid technological changes since its initial publication. For instance, uploading—individuals putting their own content on the Web—had become so much more of a flattener
that he felt it necessary to add a fair amount of content to sections that discussed it.
In August 2007, The World Is Flat 3.0 was published. Once again, Friedman added new material to keep up with the evolving world. The most recent (as of this writing) version includes information on how best to educate children for the globalized flat
world.
Overview
Two world events bookended a quiet revolution: the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the fall of the World Trade Center towers in New York City on September 11, 2001: 11/9 and 9/11.
Between these events, the world saw unprecedented growth in connectivity, aided by leaps forward in technology. We are richer than ever before. Tangled supply chains make us more peaceful—nations in business together are less likely to go to war with one another. Even the huge losses of the dot-com bubble paid off in the form of outsourcing and offshore labor. Politically and culturally retooled former Communist economies like India and China emerged to aggressively court foreign investment. Prices of goods and services fell.
But not everyone was happy