A review by duparker
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

3.0

Early on Friedman sets the tone and pace of the book, recounting how he sees the world as a connected place for business. This is the flatness he speaks of. The introduction to this idea is a good and is on target. All of the remaining chapters just hammer this home with different ideas and examples. I think they make sense. Part of this book that doesn't work so well, is that reading it 8 years after the ideas were introduced they seemed almost old hat to me. Of course networking and outsourcing bring us together. Of course we can argue that if low wages draw certain industries abroad we can then bring newer higher skilled work home. It seems painful to read some of this after the recession and even more so after the lack of newly created jobs here in the US. I'm glad I picked it up, but won't see the need to keep a copy.