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This 12 page paper discusses Thomas Friedman’s popular book “The World Is Flat” and in particular, considers his thinking with regard to faith and its intersection with technology. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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it to the skies, others have taken a great many exceptions to it, and to Friedmans theories. This paper considers the relationship between faith and technology as Friedman sees it.
Discussion The books provocative title refers to Friedmans theory that innovations in technology and communications, and the process of globalization itself, have leveled the "playing field" so that anyone can
successfully compete with anyone else in the new global marketplace. Clearly there are a lot of times when this doesnt hold true, but Friedman is selective in his writing and
tends to gloss over the desperately poor of India, for example, to discuss instead the success of their call centers, and how this has enabled hundreds of thousands of Indians
to join the middle class. Nor can Friedman successfully explain how his new flat world will profit an African tribesman who lives on less than a dollar a day and
has no Internet access. The book has been heavily criticized because of Friedmans somewhat facile observations that cut out millions of poor people from his rosy pictures. However, it must
be admitted that his theory is interesting and provocative, and that he writes well. He is a journalist, not an economist, which may help to explain some of the wobblier
thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he sees a flat world that has emerged due to globalization. He lists
what he calls "flatteners"; ten innovations that have so dramatically changed the world that they have made it easier for everyone to compete. These flatteners include such things as outsourcing;
the development of Netscape and other web browsers that allowed everyone, not just geeks, to use the Internet; and what he calls "workflow software," protocols that "would ensure that everyones
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