By Thomas L. Friedman
A re-creation of the outstanding no 1 Bestseller
"One mark of an excellent e-book is that it makes you notice issues in a brand new approach, and Mr. Friedman definitely succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The manhattan occasions reviewing The global Is Flat in 2005. during this re-creation, Thomas L. Friedman contains clean tales and insights to aid us comprehend the knocking down of the realm. Weaving new details into his total thesis, and answering the questions he has been most commonly asked by means of mom and dad around the state, this 3rd version additionally contains new chapters--on how one can be a political activist and social entrepreneur in a flat global; and at the extra troubling query of the way to regulate our reputations and privateness in a global the place we're all turning into publishers and public figures.
The global Is Flat 3.0 is a necessary replace on globalization, its possibilities for person empowerment, its achievements at lifting hundreds of thousands out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political, powerfully illuminated by means of the Pulitzer Prize--winning writer of The Lexus and the Olive Tree.
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He told me he’d been talking to an Israeli company that is making some big advances in compression technology to allow for easier, better transfers of CAT scans via the Internet so you can quickly get a second opinion from a doctor half a world away. A few weeks after I spoke with Rao, the following e-mail arrived from Bill Brody, the president of Johns Hopkins University, whom I had just interviewed for this book: Dear Tom, I am speaking at a Hopkins continuing education medical meeting for radiologists (I used to be a radiologist) .
He also did not anticipate running into a landmass before he reached the East Indies. ” Returning home, though, Columbus was able to tell his patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, that although he never did find India, he could confirm that the world was indeed round. I set out for India by going due east, via Frankfurt. I had Lufthansa business class. I knew exactly which direction I was going thanks to the GPS map displayed on the screen that popped out of the armrest of my airline seat.
Reprinted with permission. Book design by Jonathan D. Lippincott Library of Congress Control Number: 2007929112 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42507-4 ISBN-10: 0-312-42507-4 First edition published in 2005 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux First updated and expanded edition published in 2006 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux First Picador Edition: August 2007 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 To Matt and Kay and to Ron Contents Introduction to the Paperback Edition How the World Became Flat One: While I Was Sleeping Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World Flattener #1.