The World is Flat

1) What Freidman means when he says that the world is flat is that new technology that is being all around the world is making it 'virtually flat'. People can now communicate thoughts and ideas with other people so easily without even having to be in the same country or state, let alone the same room. To work on a project of any extent with anyone, anywhere has become so extremely easy that so much more can be done with it so much faster. Freidman had one example of his flat world where there was a man controlling cameras or robot machines, which were in Iraq, from his own office in the United States and watching what he was doing on a t.v. and computer screens. Technology has flattened the world to the extent where you can control what you are watching and seeing in another country, while being in another country altogether. The one connection which really made me personally begin to see the flat world was Freidman's example of Red Sox fan, Nick Burns. Burns was watching and monitoring four t.v. screens, three of which were live footage from Iraq and one was a Red Sox-Yankees game. There was the underlying connection between the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry and the Jihadists vs. the First Cavalry being watched at the same time like that which really made me realize how the world is becoming flat.