Summary Of The World Is Flat

Many people say that this is the downfall of society, but is it? The World is Flat is a brief history of the Twenty-first Century written by Thomas L. Friedman. In Chapter Six, named The Untouchables goes over the problems of the society and how we can fix it. The chapter goes over the importance of upgrading your skills and how important your job can be. Friedman often states the concept of people starving for jobs in other countries such as India and China. Instead of people starving for food, the starving of jobs is much more significant. Within this chapter, Friedman states that everyone should strive to be an “untouchable” which are “People whose jobs cannot be outsourced.” (p. 238) There are four different categories of untouchables.
Then that person's job will be outsourced or their wage will be depressed. Technology is always evolving and if someone is working within that field, they must know how to always advance their skills within that field to continue to be successful. Take for example, a graphics designer known as Bill Greer. Greer made his living doing graphics designs from the late 1970’s up until the 2000’s. Within this time period, Greer continued to use the same methods of productions for over twenty years, starting off with a physical sketch, finishing with something known as “camera-ready art” which needed to be shot and printed on four unique layers of film. When digital art using tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator became more and more common, Greer quickly fell behind. So he decided to push himself forward and became an “Ideation” which was where that person would create a pencil sketch of a design, then scan it. Then a less experienced artist would finish the project digitally. While Greer was doing this, he discovered something else known as “morphs.” A morph is where one character evolves into another using digital programs. This was a whole new world for Greer and he quickly became experienced in