BOOK
OF
THE
MONTH
The World is Flat:
A Brief History of the
21st Century
By
Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas
L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as
a presentist. His aim, in his new book, The World Is Flat, as in
his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give
you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your
lifetime, but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are
already here. The world isn't going to be flat, it is flat, which
gives Friedman's breathless narrative much of its urgency, and which
also saves it from the Epcot-style polyester sheen that futurists--the
optimistic ones at least--are inevitably prey to.
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