The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas L. Friedman

Post date: Mar 6, 2011 6:50:16 PM

What effect has computers and the internet had on the world? According to this author we are now in Globalization 3.0.The world is more interconnected than ever. Many of our low skilled jobs have been sent to other countries because they have embraced globalization and continuing education. Americans have become complacent, fallen behind in scientific discovery, economic development and innovation. We are not as ambitious as we once were. This has weakened us from within. We need to embrace globalization by realizing that education is about creating lifetime employ-ability. Lifetime education is key to this. Education is a process that goes everywhere all the time. If we do not continue our education then somewhere else there is a competitor who is and will take away our jobs.