000			01387nam a2200205Ia 4500
008			150407s9999 xx 000 0 und d
020			_a9780141034898
082			_a303.482 _bFRI
100			_aFriedman, Thomas L.
245			_aThe world is flat: _bthe globalized world in the twenty-first century
260			_bPenguin _aLondon _c2006
300			_ax,660
520			_a"The 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 game have changed forever - but does this 'death of distance', which requires us all to run faster in order to stay in the same place, mean the world has got too small and too flat too fast for us to adjust? friedman brilliantly demystifies the exciting, often bewildering, global scene unfolding before our eyes, one which we sense but barely yet understand."
650			_aSocial aspects
650			_aInformation society
650			_a Diffusion of innovations
650			_aGlobalization
650			_aFlattening
942			_2ddc _cB
999			_c344072 _d344072