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Originally Posted by =X=
Answering the original post. I think the authors definition of 'FLAT' really confuses most readers, causing most to disagree.
However if we read this short excerpt from amazon
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What Friedman means by "flat" is "connected"
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what I see is most people agree with the author's comment on the world being flat.
While I don't agree with all the authors points on what makes it flat. I do know agree that technology has been a great facilitator of this. (I.e. Internet/web browser/software)
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My thing is, I don't consider the phrases "connected" and "flat" to go together. I see "connected" as a multi-dimensional web, dense to the extent that it defies "levels" and begins to fill in the spaces between every point... it's a solid sphere (or maybe a sponge-like sphere), able to communicate in directions beyond its 2-D surface area.
So I agree (to an extent) with the idea of the world being "connected." But not with the visual construct of "flatness."