The world is flat a brief history of the twenty-first century
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the globa...
| Main Author: | Friedman, Thomas L. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. [1]: How the world became flat. While I was sleeping
- The ten forces that flattened the world: 11/9/89 (when the walls came down and the windows went up) ; 8/9/95 (when Netscape went public) ; Work flow software (let's do lunch: have your application talk to my application) ; Open-sourcing (self-organizing collaborative communities) ; Outsourcing (Y2K) ; Offshoring (when China joined the WTO) ; Supply-chaining (Wal-Mart) ; Insourcing (UPS) ; In-forming (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Web Search) ; The steroids (digital, mobile, personal, and virtual)
- The triple convergence
- The great sorting-out.
- Pt. [2]: America and the flat world. America and free trade (is Ricardo still right?)
- The untouchables
- The quiet crisis
- This is not a test.
- Pt. [3] Developing countries and the flat world. The virgin of Guadalupe.
- Pt. [4] Companies and the flat world. How companies cope.
- Pt. [5] Geopolitics and the flat world. The unflat world
- The Dell theory of conflict prevention.
- Conclusion. Imagination: 11/9 versus 9/11.