Blog #2- Thomas Friedman's Video

In Thomas Friedman's video of his lecture given in MIT, he discusses and summarizes the main points of his book "The World is Flat". He skims through what he believes are the "ten flatteners of the world" and he begins by explaining that the world is developing too fast for the economic, governmental, and political sectors to keep up. He talks about what brought him to write this book, which as he says, happened after his several trips to a variety of places around the world. After interviewing different people during his journey, he came across one Indian man who said something that was never forgotten by Friedman: "the world is being leveled". This struck Friedman and made him come to realize how quickly the world was developing, and altogether this inspired him into writing his book "The world is flat". In this video, Friedman discusses several aspects of the IT revolution such as globalization and outsourcing.