History of Science, Jolt Awards
World Is Flat
A Brief History Of The Twenty-first Century
Author:
Friedman, Thomas L.
Isbn 13:
9780374292881
ISBN: 0374292884
Pub Date:
Apr 5, 2005
Publisher:
W. H. Freeman
Shipping Weight: 1.70 pounds
Status:
Publisher out Stock no Reprint
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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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