The World Is Flat Chapter Summaries

The book “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty – First Century” is written by a famous journalist, he is also a columnist from a well known magazine name New York Times, and lastly, an author of many books, Mr. Thomas Friedman.Mr. Thomas Friedman was born on July 20, 1953 at St. Luis Park, Minnesota, United States. He was married to Mrs. Ann Friedman on 1978 and had two children named Orly and Natalie Friedman. We can also call him as a scholar, I mean a great guy that could be one of the geniuses, on globalization and international trading between different countries for when he writes for New York Time Magazine, most of his article are all about foreign affairs and also global trade and because of that he has won the PULITZER
If we divide the world like the front side and the back side, a certain nation experiencing daylight time, probably the front side, it is necessary that the other side, the back side, of the world of that certain place also experiencing a night time and vice versa. The chapter one is entitled “While I was sleeping” which laterally means that while he (Mr. Friedman) was sleeping in one side of the world, it is night time, other places from the other side of the world were widely awake for it is daytime. How could anyone don’t know that? It was explained during primary levels. The rotation of the earth on its axis as it revolves around the sun causing the day and night time occur to the different art of the world. When Mr. Friedman decided to traveled with the crews of the Discovery Time channel they landed on Bangalore, India. He was amazed for what he sees the different western advertisement and he said that “this was all in my place but this is India but its look like my country”. While in India, he meets different Indian workers and businessman. One of his interview happed to do with Jaithirth “Jerry” Rao, an Indian who’s immune to the outsourcing thing, we learn that he (Jerry Rao) process different information exchange online from different parts of the world and also perform various duties like from scheduling air flights down to a
The second part of the book describes the effects of flattening on the world and also explains on how we can adopt to the rapid changes for what is causing it. Just like Mr. Friedman describe it as what he calls the triple convergence –a new platform (electronic Web – enabled platform), horizontal supply chain management systems, and a huge in increase in terms of people number competing in the global marketplace. These three forces come together at the same time with the combination of the ten (10) factors which have worked together to flattened the world and with that they created a whole new set of geopolitical and economic issues that Mr. Friedman explains in details in the remainder of the book. The first convergence was all about technology that created a new platform. It is up until 2000 where the ten (10) flatteners were kinda like semi – independent of one another. Around Y2K, all of the flatteners converged with one another putting all forces to collaborate more and if we compared it to the complementary goods, with that when one flattener has been enhanced the other also enhance; so the more one flattener had been developed the more leveled the global field became. The first convergence was all about the combinations of all flatteners that developed platform which allow for innovations, productions, educations and even research more available. The second convergence is all about business process. After the