by Thomas L. Friedman
Such a famous book, I cannot add anything to what has been said already.
His enumeration of factors which led to globalization (the flat world) make it a bible, may one book of the bible. There are some obvious weaknesses for an informed guy how dealt with all of the internet enabled technologies since 1990. I guess he just repeated some of the thing he has heard for those entrepreneurs without its own reflection. Some technologies were not there at the time of the writing. There were available but not really ready for production. Only now they a are starting to take off. He is too enthusiastic about technology and what it can do. The aspect that many IT companies reconsider outsourcing is not even touched. It is also to biased towards India – obviously because he had more contact with that culture and can understand it better. Nevertheless I do not regret that I read it. All the opposite I recommend it to everybody – the enumeration and illustration of the effects of technology is just a value for itself.
As last point: he falls into same trap as Marx (which he cites): brilliant analysis of the current status of affair and predictions what will happen but poor conclusions on how human should act on it.
His enumeration of factors which led to globalization (the flat world) make it a bible, may one book of the bible. There are some obvious weaknesses for an informed guy how dealt with all of the internet enabled technologies since 1990. I guess he just repeated some of the thing he has heard for those entrepreneurs without its own reflection. Some technologies were not there at the time of the writing. There were available but not really ready for production. Only now they a are starting to take off. He is too enthusiastic about technology and what it can do. The aspect that many IT companies reconsider outsourcing is not even touched. It is also to biased towards India – obviously because he had more contact with that culture and can understand it better. Nevertheless I do not regret that I read it. All the opposite I recommend it to everybody – the enumeration and illustration of the effects of technology is just a value for itself.
As last point: he falls into same trap as Marx (which he cites): brilliant analysis of the current status of affair and predictions what will happen but poor conclusions on how human should act on it.
Facts:
English title: The world is flat
Original title: The world is flat
Published: 2006
