Summary Of Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat

In Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat, he writes about a so-called “triple convergence.” What Friedman is referring to in this “triple convergence” is the combination of “new players,” a new “playing field,” and these two things working together to develop “new processes and habits for horizontal collaboration.” (Friedman 211) Together, these three pieces are what Friedman believes is “the most important force shaping global economics and politics in the early twenty-first century.” (Friedman 211) I believe that Friedman’s argument is completely valid and logical. The fact that so many people from all over the world have become connected in just a few short years is astonishing. Furthermore, the idea that all of the now-connected people live