TY - BOOK AU - Thomas L Friedman TI - The World Is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century SN - 9780141022727 U1 - 330.90511 FRI-W PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Penguin KW - Diffusion of innovations. Information society. Globalization -- Social aspects. N2 - The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization a flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connected all over the planet ER -