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Steven Lyle Jordan · 07-26-2008, 11:13 PM

I was just introduced to the book "The World is Flat: A brief history of the globalized world in the 21st century" by Thomas Friedman. Without getting into the details of the book, I immediately had to ponder: Has the internet really made the world flat?

I don't think so. I see the internet as having created multiple parallel levels of communication, from very basic to incredibly complex, many of them interconnected and interrelated... as well as a "sub-level" of communication, collecting and acting upon data at a usually-hidden level. To me, this makes the internet not flat, but a three-dimensional collection of levels and sub-levels, operating concurrently and/or independently to each other.

What say ye, Mobilereaders?

07-26-2008, 11:13 PM	#1
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Is the world really flat? I was just introduced to the book "The World is Flat: A brief history of the globalized world in the 21st century" by Thomas Friedman. Without getting into the details of the book, I immediately had to ponder: Has the internet really made the world flat? I don't think so. I see the internet as having created multiple parallel levels of communication, from very basic to incredibly complex, many of them interconnected and interrelated... as well as a "sub-level" of communication, collecting and acting upon data at a usually-hidden level. To me, this makes the internet not flat, but a three-dimensional collection of levels and sub-levels, operating concurrently and/or independently to each other. What say ye, Mobilereaders?