About a week ago, I finished The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, in audiobook format. I figured my driving time (avg. 18 minutes each way) to work made sense for me to start listening to audiobooks. This one was pretty good - I'm glad I listened to it, because I probably wouldn't have made it through the book. I particularly liked the reader's accents, when he was quoting someone from India or England. Anyway - the whole concept is that all the improvements in global information infrastructure have made it so that almost the whole world is on equal footing as far as opportunity - the field has been leveled. ie; flattened. The World is Flat. Cute. It reads a little too popular for it's own good - I'm sure this got picked apart by critics. But I did enjoy it; it gave me an insight into some things I usually don't think about. Like You: An Owners Manual, one of those NF books I had to read to see what the big deal was.
Not counting this toward my book total, feels like cheating, listening to it...
1 comment:
Of course it's not cheating! You read to your kids don't you? It counts for them, so it counts for you too! What did it make you ponder in life?
-A
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