It’s a Flat World, After All (from: Ken Leebow)
http://bloggingaboutblogs.blogspot.com/2005/04/its-flat-world-after-all.html
http://www.nytimes.comThomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat, has an interesting article (no registration required) about it. Bottomline: Due to technology, our world is getting smaller and smaller.
I enjoyed this snippet because I always state: “We’re still crawling. You ain’t seen nothing yet.”
Do you recall ‘’the IT revolution'’ that the business press has been pushing for the last 20 years? Sorry to tell you this, but that was just the prologue. The last 20 years were about forging, sharpening and distributing all the new tools to collaborate and connect. Now the real information revolution is about to begin as all the complementarities among these collaborative tools start to converge. One of those who first called this moment by its real name was Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O., who in 2004 began to declare in her public speeches that the dot-com boom and bust were just ‘’the end of the beginning.'’ The last 25 years in technology, Fiorina said, have just been ‘’the warm-up act.'’ Now we are going into the main event, she said, ‘’and by the main event, I mean an era in which technology will truly transform every aspect of business, of government, of society, of life.'’
I think Lou Dobbs (CNN) should read this article. He’s Mr. Anti-Outsourcing. By the way, is he still with CNN?
For my U.S. buddies, you can watch Thomas Friedman on the Charlie Rose show tonight.