The World is Flat (6)

This book really made me start to think about what is happening around me and in my life everyday and how I do not realize it, but it will change the way that I someday live my life. Technology and the flat world have already changed how I communicate with friends and family, and now, how I do my schoolwork. It affects how I may purchase some products and how those products get to me. The flat world and technology affect how my friends connect with friends. Some in a good way and some in a bad way, for example, MySpace is a bad influence of the flat world on my friends. There may be someone who my friends meet online with whom they do not want to 'connect with' in our flat world. Is my future 'untouchable'? I do not know if what I decide to do with my life will be untouchable or if I may have to change what I want for myself in my future because of what I want being 'untouchable' for me. We are all living in a quickly changing and accelerating flat world and I will embrace it and go along with it as long as possible. Only so far can I embrace something which could be affecting what I want for myself to move forward in my life: before it starts to control me to an extent where I cannot stop it to control my own future.