The World Is Flat Book Review

Thomas Friedman is a renowned Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times. He has experience from traveling all over the world interviewing people from all walks of life giving him a strong base to understanding how the world is connected and works. This allows him to have an opinion about globalization and how it has come about in the world. Friedman says globalization is an international system that has replaced the Cold War system. “Globalization is the integration of capital, technology, and information across national borders, in a way that is creating a single global market and, to some degree, a global village” (Friedman, Thomas, 2016). Globalization is essential to understand how everything works in the world from the news on the television to understanding where to invest one’s money. There is an impact found in polices and relations that effects every country in the world in some manner. The globalization of the world has impacted the business world immensely. Business can now be done flawlessly thousands of miles away due to the impact of globalization.

The phrase that the world is referring to how the playing field is being leveled between countries and businesses (Pink, 2005). It has become flat through the conversion of technology and politics that has created a web centered world that allows the breaking of the barriers that used to restrict the progress of innovation and business. These barriers included distance, language, or geography (Pink, 2005). The world becoming flat has not been the only factor in the movement of globalization. The use of supply chains are a major factor as