The World Is Flat: The Globalized World In The Twenty-First CenturyThe beginning of the twenty first century will be remembered, friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization a flattening of the world the explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connected all over the planet, levelling the playing field as never before, so that each of us is potentially an equal and competitor of the other the rules of the