Is the World Flat?

LISDOM ponders it…This makes for an intriguing discussion: in some instances, like tomorrow when I give a presentation to librarians in Australia, the world seems amazingly flat. In others, there is a great disparity.

http://lisdom.blogspot.com/2005/08/world-is-not-flat.html

Friedman, toward the end of the book, concedes that the world is not truly “flat” but advances and shifts in the global economy are certainly making it seem that way.