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"No one today chronicles global shifts in simple and practical terms quite like Friedman. He plucks insights from his travels and the published press that can leave you spinning like a top." ( The Christian Science Monitor)
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- Paul W. Johnson
- 01-14-08
worth the listen
I skimmed the hard copy and settled on the audio book version. There are quite a few epiphanies here that take a while for the author to walk through but are worth the listen. The underlying theme that pervades this tome appears to be "Wake up America"! It could have been shorter and less prose like. The only other reviews that I saw that were negative centered around the fact that he wasn't telling us anything new. This viewpoint depends on your level of exposure to the business world - if you already significantly well read in this area there are no great eye openers. If however you are not sufficiently tuned in to globalization, transnationals, supply chain, outsourcing, insourcing and etc then put on some comfortable earphones and listen away.
31 people found this helpful
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- Robert
- 02-21-09
Keeps going and going and.....
It's ironic that at least twice in this book Friedman decried those bloggers and other content uploaders who click the send button before checking what they have written. This book is in desperate need of a good editor who would tell Friedman things like,"You've already made this point." or "That metaphor was clever only the first time you used it" or "I don't think we need yet another example" or, "Let's cut out this kum-ba-ya moment."
There is plenty of good insight and commentary in this book, for example when he explains his concept of Islamist-leninism. However, there is a lot of repetition. I almost screamed as he went through the creation of his personalized Dell computer describing where each and every part of the computer had been manufactured and how it was assembled. The point he was trying to make was a good one, but it had already been made clear before.
I would recommend this book in its abridged version as there is just about 10 hours of worthwhile material in it. And that good material is very good.
17 people found this helpful
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- Joe
- 12-20-13
Just feels out of date
There's a problem with The World is Flat and it's not Thomas Friedman's fault. His research is impeccable, his questions probing, his prose light and readable. No, the problem is that this book is now antiquated. It's sad to say that only a few years after the most recent publication, but I believe it's true.
The World is Flat discusses about how telecommunications in the digital age substantively changed the economics of the whole world. It describes how America has fallen behind parts of the world like India and Russia in taking greatest advantage of these changes and he predicts a shifting of economic supremacy in the future. Like I said, his research and reasoning is sound. But this was published before the 2008 economic collapse. That changed not only the United States but much of the Western and the developed world as well.
Because of the timing, his predictions are no longer exacting. If he wrote a new book, one discussing who will rise from the economic ashes best and fastest, using the technology he discussed in this book, I would read it. Friedman is good author, I just feel this book has been eclipsed by history.
8 people found this helpful
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- Jonathan Shultz
- 09-08-07
If you like cliches...
This is a runaway bestseller??? I listened to the whole 27 hours and didn't hear anything I haven't been reading in Forbes, WSJ and Business Week for the last 10 years. I guess if you've been in a cave since 1997 or parachuted here from Mars and need a quick lesson on society, this could be helpful. Otherwise, I strongly discourage this. It is full of cliche and group-think. I felt I should have been given a medal for enduring the whole ordeal.
40 people found this helpful
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- D
- 08-30-07
Shorten it and I might be able to finish it
I listened to a sneak peek of this book early on but decided not to get it as it was long and the tone of the presentation was dry. Then this book was listed as a must read by leaders I respect so I finally got it.
The start is a bit slow and then it ran into my personal interests, I love the topic of software, internet, what can be done, the history of it and all. I still had to shut it down. What could be said in two minutes takes twenty then there is a re-cap. And on and on.
My five hour drive seemed like a ten hour drive.
I don't know why someone would not edit it down. I will look for the Cliff Notes.
29 people found this helpful
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- William
- 05-23-08
Repetitive and unending...
Unabridged, repetitive and unending! A few good concepts dragged out for 27 hours. I only listen to unabridged audio books to assuage my guilt about not having time to read the real things. However, I can't believe this is just a reading of the book - 27 hours?! - the book is not that long - I've seen it. This is an unabridged "audio production," which apparently means talk until your audience falls asleep at the wheel.
13 people found this helpful
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- Allen
- 11-30-07
average book, bad reader
The book's concepts are mostly just the author preaching his biases, which is fine, but his concepts are nothing new at all. If you read any news or books in the last 3 yrs, you should already have thought about these concepts.
However, the killer is the audio reader, Oliver Wyman. when he reads people's quotes from the book, he fakes an accent. So when he reads an Indian guys quote, he tries to imitate a slight Indian accent. After a few hours of listening, it gets a bit annoying.
10 people found this helpful
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- Martin
- 12-22-08
A good introduction to the 21st century
The audiobook is definitely worth listening to if you are in any way interested in what is going on in our world today. In especially the first half of the audiobook you are introduced to how the world is flattened in a simple and easily understandable way. The audiobook only gets 4 stars, since it never seems to end, and you need several cups of coffee to stay awake through the entire audiobook.
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- Ivan
- 09-12-21
obnoxiously pretentious drivel
The first 200-ish pages are totally unbearable.
Of course, many people today might have the power of hindsight but even when he wrote this book, he had several opportunities for hindsight. All of these "sudden discoveries" he had made about globalization were already being talked about since World War 2. Sure, a lot of the topics he addressed might be news to some people but the overall message of the first 200 or so pages is something that experts (the ones pushing the conversation) have been addressing for a very long time. Many of these discussions, dating back to the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s...etc, are even available on youtube so he can't really get away with "pioneering" some discussion simply by slapping the annoying title "the world is flat", ad nauseam (he sure is proud of that ""clever"" name he came up with, by the way), and name-dropping CEOs every 5 seconds.
So much of this book sounds like a pretentious writer that came so very late to the party and wants to act like he's at the forefront of a discussion, and it reflects on the books approach to economic issues, which is very outdated.
This is the problem when you try to make a book that tries to give an absolute, correct answers to questions regarding drastically dynamic topics, such as economics and technology.
For lack of a better example, the most accurate review for this book is this: "boomer tries to understand technology, economics, and the future"
Good ol fashion, hearty, all American Free-market ≠ globalism and globalism ≠ Free-market. The two are not interchangeable. A lot of good discussions are to be had and a lot of good points are brought up by both anti-globalist and globalist perspectives, as well as a lot of bad points. None of which are found here.
If you want to hear some boomer - who literally was so out-of-the-loop that he thinks only in the late 90s did the massive landscape shift that computers were causing was being recognized (probably because thats when he started paying attention to these topics) - act like he's got some impressive, nuanced take, then by all means, boot up that iMac g3, turn up those speakers, dial up the audible website, sit back, and listen to Micheal Scott's distant relative use cringe-inducing, entirely unnecessary, Indian accents when quoting perfectly well written and grammatically correct English, modern takes on globalism be damned.
1 person found this helpful
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- Timothy
- 08-11-11
The book defacto dates itself, but worth a listen
I really enjoyed this book. I live in the UK, travel quite a bit, but work completely online and am employed in the US. I therefore experience some of the flattening effects this book talks about.
What I enjoyed: His examples of how technology is changing the world.
His almost prophetic words in part 4 about what technology could do to the Arab world (i.e. the Arab spring, spread of rights to individuals).
The author's focus on India and China in today's economy.
What I did not like:
-There is a reason 3.0 was the third edition in as many years. Because of the design of this book, it automatically dates itself. There are so many things that have happened technologically and globally that are not mentioned (the great recession, he notes $50 a barrel oil as being expensive, the iphone/smart phenomena, netbooks and tablet computers, wireless mobile broadband access in your computer without wifi, etc.)
-I suppose 3.0 just added new material rather than actually reformat parts of the book. The author's voice changed at times, and I took that to mean it was an addition to the book.
-By part 4 I was ready to finish the book.
Overall, I enjoyed the book, and think it is worth the listen.
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- China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
- By: Kai-Fu Lee
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
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Compelled to listen at 2x speed
- By MP on 09-26-18
By: Kai-Fu Lee
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The Industries of the Future
- By: Alec Ross
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years - for businesses, governments, and the global community - and how we can navigate them.
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Ok review of what is now. Not much future.
- By Sam on 05-06-16
By: Alec Ross
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration - and explains how to live in it. Due to an exponential increase in computing power, climbers atop Mount Everest enjoy excellent cell phone service, and self-driving cars are taking to the roads. A parallel explosion of economic interdependency has created new riches as well as spiraling debt burdens.
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It really is an optimists guide to scary stuff
- By Adam Shields on 12-12-16
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Startup Rising
- The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
- By: Christopher M. Schroeder
- Narrated by: Christopher M. Schroeder
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Despite the world's elation at the Arab Spring, shockingly little has changed politically in the Middle East; even frontliners Egypt and Tunisia continue to suffer repression, fixed elections, and bombings, while Syria descends into civil war. But in the midst of it all, a quieter revolution has begun to emerge, one that might ultimately do more to change the face of the region: Entrepreneurship.
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Inspiring stories
- By Raafat Zaini on 02-13-15
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WTF?
- What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
- By: Tim O'Reilly
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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The digital revolution has transformed the world of media, upending centuries-old companies and business models. Now, it is restructuring every business, every job, and every sector of society. Yet the biggest changes are still ahead. To survive, every industry and organization will have to transform itself in multiple ways. O'Reilly explores what the next economy will mean for the world and every aspect of our lives - and what we can do to shape it.
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A glimpse into the present (not the future)
- By Brian Kennan on 01-01-18
By: Tim O'Reilly
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
- Understanding Globalization
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Thomas L. Friedman
- Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
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A brilliant investigation of globalization, the most significant socioeconomic trend in the world today, and how it is affecting everything we do - economically, politically, and culturally - abroad and at home. As foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman crisscrosses the globe talking with the world's economic and political leaders. Now he has used his years of experience as a reporter and columnist to produce a pithy, trenchant, riveting look at the worldwide market forces that are driving today's economies.
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I am biased
- By kansas on 01-11-19
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AI Superpowers
- China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
- By: Kai-Fu Lee
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
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Compelled to listen at 2x speed
- By MP on 09-26-18
By: Kai-Fu Lee
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The Industries of the Future
- By: Alec Ross
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years - for businesses, governments, and the global community - and how we can navigate them.
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Ok review of what is now. Not much future.
- By Sam on 05-06-16
By: Alec Ross
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Peers Inc
- How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
- By: Robin Chase
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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When Robin Chase cofounded Zipcar, she not only started a business but established the foundation for one of the most important economic and social ideas of our time: the collaborative economy. With this important audiobook, she broadens our thinking about the ways in which the economy is being transformed and shows how the Peers Inc model is changing the very nature of capitalism.
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a deep look into this new economic model
- By Andy on 07-29-15
By: Robin Chase
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The Robots Are Coming!
- The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation
- By: Andres Oppenheimer, Ezra E. Fitz - translator
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Staying true to his trademark journalistic approach, AndrĆ©s Oppenheimer takes his listeners on yet another journey, this time across the globe, in a thought-provoking search to understand what the future holds for today's jobs in the foreseeable age of automation.Ā
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Great idea but amazingly repetitive
- By Mike from MT on 06-13-21
By: Andres Oppenheimer, and others
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The Third Wave
- An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future
- By: Steve Case
- Narrated by: Steve Case
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Steve Case was on the leading edge of the Internet revolution when he cofounded AOL in 1991. He was an entrepreneur in a business that hadn't even been invented, yet he saw how significantly his efforts could change not only America but the world. In The Third Wave, Case uses his insights garnered from nearly four decades of working as an innovator, investor, and businessperson to chart a path for future visionaries.
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About the Internet of Things, and Then Again Not.
- By J.B. on 04-24-16
By: Steve Case
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Disrupt You!
- Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
- By: Jay Samit
- Narrated by: Jay Samit
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In today's ever-changing and often-volatile business landscape, adaptability and creativity are more crucial than ever. It is no longer possible - or even desirable - to learn one set of job skills and work your way up the ladder. Rather, today's entrepreneurs and business leaders must anticipate change to create opportunities for professional success and personal satisfaction.
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Nothing interesting, a bunch of unrelated stories
- By Kuba on 12-27-19
By: Jay Samit
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Flash Foresight
- How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible
- By: Daniel Burrus, John David Mann
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Today we all face more impossible challenges than ever before. But flash foresight lets you transform the impossible into the possible, revealing hidden opportunities and allowing you to solve your biggest problems before they happen.
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Time Sensitive
- By Roy on 01-30-11
By: Daniel Burrus, and others
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Little Rice
- Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese DreamĀ
- By: Clay Shirky
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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Since the 1990s China has been climbing up the ladder of quality, from doing knockoffs to designing its own high-end goods. Xiaomi - its name literally means "little rice" - is landing squarely in this shift in China's economy. But the remarkable rise of Xiaomi from startup to colossus is more than a business story because mobile phones are special. The common desiderata of the global population, mobile phones offer the kind of freedom and connectedness that autocratic countries are terrified of.
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Informative and up to date.
- By Kevin on 01-10-16
By: Clay Shirky
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Hit Refresh
- The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
- By: Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Bill Gates - foreword
- Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki, Satya Nadella
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Microsoft's CEO tells the inside story of the company's continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant technological changes in the digital era. As much a humanist as engineer and executive, Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies and a distinct call to action for leaders everywhere.
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Great read for those into tech
- By Spider-Man on 10-14-17
By: Satya Nadella, and others