Textbooks are textbooks right? That's exactly what I thought. However, as it turns out I was nothing but terribly wrong about our Friedman book. As I traveled down to Florida for Spring Break to hang with my cousin I was overwhelmed by the amount of sightings and recommendations I saw of The World Is Flat. It was pretty much in every airport newstand with a huge display, but I didn't really think too much of it. Then upon arriving in Florida it was the talk of the town. Here I was trying to escape classes and school for a solid week only to be dragged down by these reminders.
I do like the book even though it is a bit dense with everything being broken down to simpler matters, but I think that is what people need. With the onset of technology every place we look those who are not savvy on the issue need a supposed guide to this new world. This book has answers and explanations that we maybe could not find elsewhere. This is pretty ironic if you think about it that it is in a text and not a web based source if you think about it. As I flew south and spoke with my uncle for a few minutes to catch up this book came up. He absolutely loved it and got my aunt into too (who doesn't really dig reading books to begin with). I just read the book, kind of liked it just read it for the sake of purpose, but after speaking about it I realized it really is everywhere you go from the explanation of Southwest's online boarding passes to perfect English speaking employees in India taking service calls.
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This is a pretty interesting posts for a number of reasons
1. I understand exactly what you are saying about feeling overwhelmed at the time of hearing and seeing tons of Friedmans books where you least expected it. Over the break I was browsing through Amazon to order some books when a huge highlighted pop up appeared and said "The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman - top seller of the month for technology related sources." I was flawed!
2. In a way we are still stuck in our own little worlds. We fail to realize how far technology is reaching and how many people are influced by it as well as using it.
Just today I read the article that Professor Stearns posted about the NAEP and it said : "100 million blogs—online journals—now exist worldwide, and 171 billion e-mail messages are sent daily." Isn't that unbelievable? It almost seems pathetic in a way that millions of people rely on the internet every day, but look how many people are communicating!
B, see, you can't escape 307 no matter what you to or where you go!! Liked your title here...would like to meet your uncle!!
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