The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century | Thomas L. Friedman

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century | Thomas L. Friedman | Great for a Career Choice

books:

The World Is Flat ...

	The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Thomas L. Friedman Picador, 2007 - 672 pages average customer review:based on 1155 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

Why The World Is Shrinking And Why That Is A Good Thing

With information moving at the speed of light and a huge transportation network connecting virtually any dots in the planet, Thomas Friedman provides a clever insight into globalization. In short it means that a service or a product should be produced wherever it's most efficient that the whole world benefits from that. Of course, there are some adjustments necessary as this puts a lot of forces and pressures for capital, market and job shifts. One caveat though - and not explored in the book - is that globalization of products relies on a cheap source of transportation energy. With oil prices climbing really fast, either a competitive alternative is found, or the globalization of products may be compromised. Highly recommended for the insight and entertainment of thought.

for more information click here

Great for a Career Choice

I bought this book once I had the opportunity to hear a speech of Friedman in the MIT, if you want to see it, is for free on iTunes.

The book gives us an insightful opinion and research on the past and current trends of the IT industry, he explains us how it has been able to transform the way we think and live our daily lives.

This book is a must for all of those students that are currently thinking what career to choose, as it tells us what jobs the world is going to need in the future.

Great Reading

Despite of the weaknesses of this book, it still offers many point of view in enhancing our global perspective

Like it or not, this book has helped dilate our global perspective. I personally say "YES" to many of his thoughts in this book. Though it sounds too idealistic, demographically, I still agree that one day, the environmental health threats of "megacity" due to the demography shift will be reduced significantly. This is because people do not need to migrate for a better place to live. This very fast globalization process have made our world very close to be homogeneous, in term of internet technology, telecommunication, travel facilities, etc - that makes people feel comfortable with where they belong to live at.

Individually, people have been yearning to get out from the pain of "dehumanization process" due to the excessive demand of life. People in the more developed countries (MDC) have to work more for the bills than for the family. Majority of us are bound to pay the mortgage, credit cards, student loan and other debts -even though physically it seems that we are happier with all the fancy facilities we have in comparison with what people in the less developed countries (LDCs) have. We, in our MDC wants more than what we need. It is about time for us to response to the higher call of life as to live in a "homesotasis" state of life - non excessive nor lack of.

I remember long long time ago when I was still live in my birth country (less developed country), many of people in my country as well other people from the less developed countries, would dream and do anything to come to this country with honey and milk. Now, the paradigm is significantly shifted in opposite ways. People from more developed countries would love to demographically shift to the third world country (bringing their early retirement money) for cheaper living expenses and less demanding lifestyle.

In corporate point of view, opportunity to utilize cheaper labors with same quality from India, China, and other places have helped this process of flatting the world. We must admit our surprise of all the numerical figures presented by this book from cost efficiency, telemarketing outside our country, how many of our taxes and billing system have been taken care from India, etc.

Many more to says, but one thing I would like to emphasize as my personal conclusion is that we are alarming by this book to be ready for this process of the flattening of the world in many arenas of our life.

Julie Kiler, CA

for more information click here

The World is Flat

What an outstanding book! Don't be fooled by the size of the book as you'll breeze right through it. It is one of the most fast-paced and highly informative historical perspective on business, past, present and future. I learned so much in this book about outsourcing, insourcing, and about all the ideas that have shaped and continuing to change the world. Fascinating book.

Great Book

This is a great book to read. it talks all about what is happening at present and its impact on our future. i tells how to prepare american and world society for the future. really inspiring...!

for more information click here