The World Is Flat Book Report
The World Is Flat
"The World Is Flat" a book by author Thomas L. Friedman, discusses key events of the twenty-first century and they have brought the world closer together. At the book’s core, it is study of how and why the business world has become more interconnected, and how old American values may be preventing it from retaining the status it has long held a top of the economic world.
Friedman begins by describing a trip to Bangalore, India where he visits “India’s Silicon Valley” and is stunned by the amount of technology that has come about in this once third world country. The playing field of business has been leveled, with emerging countries now able to compete with more developed countries for higher paying, higher valued jobs. …show more content…
destructive imagination. Explaining that Americans gave into fear following 9/11, and instead of coming together and fighting for freedom, they got together and fought against terrorism. While this point seems to deviate from the core ideas of the book, it is merely to demonstrate one man’s idea, the tools of technology and the execution of a plan. This is how Friedman breaks down terrorism, a problem of imagination, of self-affirming. Comparing Osama Bin Laden to David Neeleman, who started the JetBlue airlines; two men who wanted to use airplanes to fulfill their dreams. One of which was to transport people, one to kill them; both relying on communication and dedicated workers to preform.
Friedman’s next segment, “The Curse of Oil” demonstrates exactly that, while it is used to fuel and produce, it can corrupt the principles of democracy. The problem is that in oil rich countries, leaders can use the oil money to control companies and state institutions, and not be liable to the people. Saudi Arabia for example will not reform, why would they? As long as the oil money is coming in, those in charge of the country have no desire
"The World Is Flat" a book by author Thomas L. Friedman, discusses key events of the twenty-first century and they have brought the world closer together. At the book’s core, it is study of how and why the business world has become more interconnected, and how old American values may be preventing it from retaining the status it has long held a top of the economic world.
Friedman begins by describing a trip to Bangalore, India where he visits “India’s Silicon Valley” and is stunned by the amount of technology that has come about in this once third world country. The playing field of business has been leveled, with emerging countries now able to compete with more developed countries for higher paying, higher valued jobs. …show more content…
destructive imagination. Explaining that Americans gave into fear following 9/11, and instead of coming together and fighting for freedom, they got together and fought against terrorism. While this point seems to deviate from the core ideas of the book, it is merely to demonstrate one man’s idea, the tools of technology and the execution of a plan. This is how Friedman breaks down terrorism, a problem of imagination, of self-affirming. Comparing Osama Bin Laden to David Neeleman, who started the JetBlue airlines; two men who wanted to use airplanes to fulfill their dreams. One of which was to transport people, one to kill them; both relying on communication and dedicated workers to preform.
Friedman’s next segment, “The Curse of Oil” demonstrates exactly that, while it is used to fuel and produce, it can corrupt the principles of democracy. The problem is that in oil rich countries, leaders can use the oil money to control companies and state institutions, and not be liable to the people. Saudi Arabia for example will not reform, why would they? As long as the oil money is coming in, those in charge of the country have no desire