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The World Is Flat

A book report of "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

"The World Is Flat" a book by author Thomas L. Friedman discusses a brief history of the twenty-first century and its most recent impact on the US economic today and the world we live in. Friedman unfolds and identifies three major world wide events that explain he's philosophical explanation of why he thinks the "The World Is Flat" with the incorporation of his belief of the "Triple Convergence in 2000". Ten convoluted events of complementary ingredients were combined and lead to Friedman's meaning of the emerged of the triple convergence that reflects the level of our globalization economical state. While Thomas Friedman was on a project in Bangalore, India, in Silicon Valley completing a documentary for the Discovery Times Channel on "Out-Souring" in India. Friedman tells a story how he and a good friend, "Nandan Nilekani" (who is the CEO and owner of InfoSys.) stood for a moment together waiting for a crew to set up the film equipment, when Nilekani said to Tom "You Know, Tom, the playing field is being leveled and you, Americans, you're not ready". Afterwards, Thomas Friedman could not stop contemplating about what exactly "Nandan" was trying to convey. Friedman ponders his friend's comment for a short while and concludes that while many Americans were sleeping (basically in an osculating mode) the world was changing in exponential rates. Friedman concluded what "Nandan" was really trying to say was that the playing field is not being "leveled" but more so, flatten, thus, "The World Is Flat". Explaining how the global economic playing field that is being leveled off and we as Americans are not ready for its implications on the US and the economy of the entire world. Friedman explains how 10 ingredients, he calls "flatteners" which has inadvertently brought about a new global business environment.
The 1st flattener is the "Fall of the Berlin Wall", where Friedman...

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