Pihak luar sering menyampaikan keluhan bahwa pengusaha
Indonesia tidak membalas fax dan e-mail yang mereka
kirim.  Meng-acknowledge receipt saja tidak.  Padahal
pengusaha itu sudah pergi kemana-mana, dan kepada
rekan usahanya tidak lupa menyodorkan business card.
Rupanya banyak diantara kita belum menyadari bahwa
jarak tidak menjadi penghalang dua insan saling
berhalo-halo dan menawarkan apa yang mereka punya atau
butuhkan.  Rekan bisnis tadi merasa bahwa dia ketemu
dengan rekannya dalam lift dan menyapa, tapi rekan
Indonesia tadi diam saja -- begitu perumpamaannya.

Thomas Friedman, kolumnis New York Times, adalah salah
seorang penganjur globalisasi, yang dia bagi menjadi
globalization 1.0, globalization 2.0 dan pada
milennium ini dunia sudah sampai pada globalization
3.0.  China dan India sudah menyadari dan bermain
dalam globalization 3.0.

Salam,
RM  
  

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April 3, 2005
It's a Flat World, After All
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN 
 
In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail for India, going
west. He had the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
He never did find India, but he called the people he
met ''Indians'' and came home and reported to his king
and queen: ''The world is round.'' I set off for India
512 years later. I knew just which direction I was
going. I went east. I had Lufthansa business class,
and I came home and reported only to my wife and only
in a whisper: ''The world is flat.'' 

And therein lies a tale of technology and geoeconomics
that is fundamentally reshaping our lives -- much,
much more quickly than many people realize. It all
happened while we were sleeping, or rather while we
were focused on 9/11, the dot-com bust and Enron --
which even prompted some to wonder whether
globalization was over. Actually, just the opposite
was true, which is why it's time to wake up and
prepare ourselves for this flat world, because others
already are, and there is no time to waste. 

I wish I could say I saw it all coming. Alas, I
encountered the flattening of the world quite by
accident. It was in late February of last year, and I
was visiting the Indian high-tech capital, Bangalore, 

working on a documentary for the Discovery Times
channel about outsourcing. In short order, I
interviewed Indian entrepreneurs who wanted to prepare
my taxes from Bangalore, read my X-rays from
Bangalore, trace my lost luggage from Bangalore and
write my new software from Bangalore. The longer I was
there, the more upset I became -- upset at the
realization that while I had been off covering the
9/11 wars, globalization had entered a whole new
phase, and I had missed it. I guess the eureka moment
came on a visit to the campus of Infosys Technologies,
one of the crown jewels of the Indian outsourcing and
software industry. Nandan Nilekani, the Infosys
C.E.O., was showing me his global video-conference
room, pointing with pride to a wall-size flat-screen
TV, which he said was the biggest in Asia. Infosys, he
explained, could hold a virtual meeting of the key
players from its entire global supply chain for any
project at any time on that supersize screen. So its
American designers could be on the screen speaking
with their Indian software writers and their Asian
manufacturers all at once. That's what globalization
is all about today, Nilekani said. Above the screen
there were eight clocks that pretty well summed up the
Infosys workday: 24/7/365. The clocks were labeled
U.S. West, U.S. East, G.M.T., India, Singapore, Hong
Kong, Japan, Australia. 

''Outsourcing is just one dimension of a much more
fundamental thing happening today in the world,''
Nilekani explained. ''What happened over the last
years is that there was a massive investment in
technology, especially in the bubble era, when
hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in
putting broadband connectivity around the world,
undersea cables, all those things.'' At the same time,
he added, computers became cheaper and dispersed all
over the world, and there was an explosion of e-mail
software, search engines like Google and proprietary
software that can chop up any piece of work and send
one part to Boston, one part to Bangalore and one part
to Beijing, making it easy for anyone to do remote
development. When all of these things suddenly came
together around 2000, Nilekani said, they ''created a
platform where intellectual work, intellectual
capital, could be delivered from anywhere. It could be
disaggregated, delivered, distributed, produced and
put back together again -- and this gave a whole new
degree of freedom to the way we do work, especially
work of an intellectual nature. And what you are
seeing in Bangalore today is really the culmination of
all these things coming together.'' 

At one point, summing up the implications of all this,
Nilekani uttered a phrase that rang in my ear. He said
to me, ''Tom, the playing field is being leveled.'' He
meant that countries like India were now able to
compete equally for global knowledge work as never
before -- and that America had better get ready for
this. As I left the Infosys campus that evening and
bounced along the potholed road back to Bangalore, I
kept chewing on that phrase: ''The playing field is
being leveled.'' 

''What Nandan is saying,'' I thought, ''is that the
playing field is being flattened. Flattened?
Flattened? My God, he's telling me the world is
flat!'' 

Here I was in Bangalore -- more than 500 years after
Columbus sailed over the horizon, looking for a
shorter route to India using the rudimentary
navigational technologies of his day, and returned
safely to prove definitively that the world was round
-- and one of India's smartest engineers, trained at
his country's top technical institute and backed by
the most modern technologies of his day, was telling
me that the world was flat, as flat as that screen on
which he can host a meeting of his whole global supply
chain. Even more interesting, he was citing this
development as a new milestone in human progress and a
great opportunity for India and the world -- the fact
that we had made our world flat! 

This has been building for a long time. Globalization
1.0 (1492 to 1800) shrank the world from a size large
to a size medium, and the dynamic force in that era
was countries globalizing for resources and imperial
conquest. Globalization 2.0 (1800 to 2000) shrank the
world from a size medium to a size small, and it was
spearheaded by companies globalizing for markets and
labor. Globalization 3.0 (which started around 2000)
is shrinking the world from a size small to a size
tiny and flattening the playing field at the same
time. And while the dynamic force in Globalization 1.0
was countries globalizing and the dynamic force in
Globalization 2.0 was companies globalizing, the
dynamic force in Globalization 3.0 -- the thing that
gives it its unique character -- is individuals and
small groups globalizing. Individuals must, and can,
now ask: where do I fit into the global competition
and opportunities of the day, and how can I, on my
own, collaborate with others globally? But
Globalization 3.0 not only differs from the previous
eras in how it is shrinking and flattening the world
and in how it is empowering individuals. It is also
different in that Globalization 1.0 and 2.0 were
driven primarily by European and American companies
and countries. But going forward, this will be less
and less true. Globalization 3.0 is not only going to
be driven more by individuals but also by a much more
diverse -- non-Western, nonwhite -- group of
individuals. In Globalization 3.0, you are going to
see every color of the human rainbow take part. 

''Today, the most profound thing to me is the fact
that a 14-year-old in Romania or Bangalore or the
Soviet Union or Vietnam has all the information, all
the tools, all the software easily available to apply
knowledge however they want,'' said Marc Andreessen, a
co-founder of Netscape and creator of the first
commercial Internet browser. ''That is why I am sure
the next Napster is going to come out of left field.
As bioscience becomes more computational and less
about wet labs and as all the genomic data becomes
easily available on the Internet, at some point you
will be able to design vaccines on your laptop.'' 

Andreessen is touching on the most exciting part of
Globalization 3.0 and the flattening of the world: the
fact that we are now in the process of connecting all
the knowledge pools in the world together. We've
tasted some of the downsides of that in the way that
Osama bin Laden has connected terrorist knowledge
pools together through his Qaeda network, not to
mention the work of teenage hackers spinning off more
and more lethal computer viruses that affect us all.
But the upside is that by connecting all these
knowledge pools we are on the cusp of an incredible
new era of innovation, an era that will be driven from
left field and right field, from West and East and
from North and South. Only 30 years ago, if you had a
choice of being born a B student in Boston or a genius
in Bangalore or Beijing, you probably would have
chosen Boston, because a genius in Beijing or
Bangalore could not really take advantage of his or
her talent. They could not plug and play globally. Not
anymore. Not when the world is flat, and anyone with
smarts, access to Google and a cheap wireless laptop
can join the innovation fray. 

When the world is flat, you can innovate without
having to emigrate. This is going to get interesting.
We are about to see creative destruction on steroids. 

How did the world get flattened, and how did it happen
so fast? 

It was a result of 10 events and forces that all came
together during the 1990's and converged right around
the year 2000. Let me go through them briefly. The
first event was 11/9. That's right -- not 9/11, but
11/9. Nov. 9, 1989, is the day the Berlin Wall came
down, which was critically important because it
allowed us to think of the world as a single space.
''The Berlin Wall was not only a symbol of keeping
people inside Germany; it was a way of preventing a
kind of global view of our future,'' the Nobel
Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen said. And the wall
went down just as the windows went up -- the
breakthrough Microsoft Windows 3.0 operating system,
which helped to flatten the playing field even more by
creating a global computer interface, shipped six
months after the wall fell. 

The second key date was 8/9. Aug. 9, 1995, is the day
Netscape went public, which did two important things.
First, it brought the Internet alive by giving us the
browser to display images and data stored on Web
sites. Second, the Netscape stock offering triggered
the dot-com boom, which triggered the dot-com bubble,
which triggered the massive overinvestment of billions
of dollars in fiber-optic telecommunications cable.
That overinvestment, by companies like Global
Crossing, resulted in the willy-nilly creation of a
global undersea-underground fiber network, which in
turn drove down the cost of transmitting voices, data
and images to practically zero, which in turn
accidentally made Boston, Bangalore and Beijing
next-door neighbors overnight. In sum, what the
Netscape revolution did was bring people-to-people
connectivity to a whole new level. Suddenly more
people could connect with more other people from more
different places in more different ways than ever
before. 

No country accidentally benefited more from the
Netscape moment than India. ''India had no resources
and no infrastructure,'' said Dinakar Singh, one of
the most respected hedge-fund managers on Wall Street,
whose parents earned doctoral degrees in biochemistry
from the University of Delhi before emigrating to
America. ''It produced people with quality and by
quantity. But many of them rotted on the docks of
India like vegetables. Only a relative few could get
on ships and get out. Not anymore, because we built
this ocean crosser, called fiber-optic cable. For
decades you had to leave India to be a professional.
Now you can plug into the world from India. You don't
have to go to Yale and go to work for Goldman Sachs.''
India could never have afforded to pay for the
bandwidth to connect brainy India with high-tech
America, so American shareholders paid for it. Yes,
crazy overinvestment can be good. The overinvestment
in railroads turned out to be a great boon for the
American economy. ''But the railroad overinvestment
was confined to your own country and so, too, were the
benefits,'' Singh said. In the case of the digital
railroads, ''it was the foreigners who benefited.''
India got a free ride. 

The first time this became apparent was when thousands
of Indian engineers were enlisted to fix the Y2K --
the year 2000 -- computer bugs for companies from all
over the world. (Y2K should be a national holiday in
India. Call it ''Indian Interdependence Day,'' says
Michael Mandelbaum, a foreign-policy analyst at Johns
Hopkins.) The fact that the Y2K work could be
outsourced to Indians was made possible by the first
two flatteners, along with a third, which I call
''workflow.'' Workflow is shorthand for all the
software applications, standards and electronic
transmission pipes, like middleware, that connected
all those computers and fiber-optic cable. To put it
another way, if the Netscape moment connected people
to people like never before, what the workflow
revolution did was connect applications to
applications so that people all over the world could
work together in manipulating and shaping words, data
and images on computers like never before. 

Indeed, this breakthrough in people-to-people and
application-to-application connectivity produced, in
short order, six more flatteners -- six new ways in
which individuals and companies could collaborate on
work and share knowledge. One was ''outsourcing.''
When my software applications could connect seamlessly
with all of your applications, it meant that all kinds
of work -- from accounting to software-writing --
could be digitized, disaggregated and shifted to any
place in the world where it could be done better and
cheaper. The second was ''offshoring.'' I send my
whole factory from Canton, Ohio, to Canton, China. The
third was ''open-sourcing.'' I write the next
operating system, Linux, using engineers collaborating
together online and working for free. The fourth was
''insourcing.'' I let a company like UPS come inside
my company and take over my whole logistics operation
-- everything from filling my orders online to
delivering my goods to repairing them for customers
when they break. (People have no idea what UPS really
does today. You'd be amazed!). The fifth was
''supply-chaining.'' This is Wal-Mart's specialty. I
create a global supply chain down to the last atom of
efficiency so that if I sell an item in Arkansas,
another is immediately made in China. (If Wal-Mart
were a country, it would be China's eighth-largest
trading partner.) The last new form of collaboration I
call ''informing'' -- this is Google, Yahoo and MSN
Search, which now allow anyone to collaborate with,
and mine, unlimited data all by themselves. 

So the first three flatteners created the new platform
for collaboration, and the next six are the new forms
of collaboration that flattened the world even more.
The 10th flattener I call ''the steroids,'' and these
are wireless access and voice over Internet protocol
(VoIP). What the steroids do is turbocharge all these
new forms of collaboration, so you can now do any one
of them, from anywhere, with any device. 

The world got flat when all 10 of these flatteners
converged around the year 2000. This created a global,
Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple
forms of collaboration on research and work in real
time, without regard to geography, distance or, in the
near future, even language. ''It is the creation of
this platform, with these unique attributes, that is
the truly important sustainable breakthrough that made
what you call the flattening of the world possible,''
said Craig Mundie, the chief technical officer of
Microsoft. 

No, not everyone has access yet to this platform, but
it is open now to more people in more places on more
days in more ways than anything like it in history.
Wherever you look today -- whether it is the world of
journalism, with bloggers bringing down Dan Rather;
the world of software, with the Linux code writers
working in online forums for free to challenge
Microsoft; or the world of business, where Indian and
Chinese innovators are competing against and working
with some of the most advanced Western multinationals
-- hierarchies are being flattened and value is being
created less and less within vertical silos and more
and more through horizontal collaboration within
companies, between companies and among individuals. 

Do you recall ''the IT revolution'' that the business
press has been pushing for the last 20 years? Sorry to
tell you this, but that was just the prologue. The
last 20 years were about forging, sharpening and
distributing all the new tools to collaborate and
connect. Now the real information revolution is about
to begin as all the complementarities among these
collaborative tools start to converge. One of those
who first called this moment by its real name was
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O., who
in 2004 began to declare in her public speeches that
the dot-com boom and bust were just ''the end of the
beginning.'' The last 25 years in technology, Fiorina
said, have just been ''the warm-up act.'' Now we are
going into the main event, she said, ''and by the main
event, I mean an era in which technology will truly
transform every aspect of business, of government, of
society, of life.'' 

As if this flattening wasn't enough, another
convergence coincidentally occurred during the 1990's
that was equally important. Some three billion people
who were out of the game walked, and often ran, onto
the playing field. I am talking about the people of
China, India, Russia, Eastern Europe, Latin America
and Central Asia. Their economies and political
systems all opened up during the course of the 1990's
so that their people were increasingly free to join
the free market. And when did these three billion
people converge with the new playing field and the new
business processes? Right when it was being flattened,
right when millions of them could compete and
collaborate more equally, more horizontally and with
cheaper and more readily available tools. Indeed,
thanks to the flattening of the world, many of these
new entrants didn't even have to leave home to
participate. Thanks to the 10 flatteners, the playing
field came to them! 

It is this convergence -- of new players, on a new
playing field, developing new processes for horizontal
collaboration -- that I believe is the most important
force shaping global economics and politics in the
early 21st century. Sure, not all three billion can
collaborate and compete. In fact, for most people the
world is not yet flat at all. But even if we're
talking about only 10 percent, that's 300 million
people -- about twice the size of the American work
force. And be advised: the Indians and Chinese are not
racing us to the bottom. They are racing us to the
top. What China's leaders really want is that the next
generation of underwear and airplane wings not just be
''made in China'' but also be ''designed in China.''
And that is where things are heading. So in 30 years
we will have gone from ''sold in China'' to ''made in
China'' to ''designed in China'' to ''dreamed up in
China'' -- or from China as collaborator with the
worldwide manufacturers on nothing to China as a
low-cost, high-quality, hyperefficient collaborator
with worldwide manufacturers on everything. Ditto
India. Said Craig Barrett, the C.E.O. of Intel, ''You
don't bring three billion people into the world
economy overnight without huge consequences,
especially from three societies'' -- like India, China
and Russia -- ''with rich educational heritages.'' 

That is why there is nothing that guarantees that
Americans or Western Europeans will continue leading
the way. These new players are stepping onto the
playing field legacy free, meaning that many of them
were so far behind that they can leap right into the
new technologies without having to worry about all the
sunken costs of old systems. It means that they can
move very fast to adopt new, state-of-the-art
technologies, which is why there are already more
cellphones in use in China today than there are people
in America. 

If you want to appreciate the sort of challenge we are
facing, let me share with you two conversations. One
was with some of the Microsoft officials who were
involved in setting up Microsoft's research center in
Beijing, Microsoft Research Asia, which opened in 1998
-- after Microsoft sent teams to Chinese universities
to administer I.Q. tests in order to recruit the best
brains from China's 1.3 billion people. Out of the
2,000 top Chinese engineering and science students
tested, Microsoft hired 20. They have a saying at
Microsoft about their Asia center, which captures the
intensity of competition it takes to win a job there
and explains why it is already the most productive
research team at Microsoft: ''Remember, in China, when
you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people
just like you.'' 

The other is a conversation I had with Rajesh Rao, a
young Indian entrepreneur who started an
electronic-game company from Bangalore, which today
owns the rights to Charlie Chaplin's image for mobile
computer games. ''We can't relax,'' Rao said. ''I
think in the case of the United States that is what
happened a bit. Please look at me: I am from India. We
have been at a very different level before in terms of
technology and business. But once we saw we had an
infrastructure that made the world a small place, we
promptly tried to make the best use of it. We saw
there were so many things we could do. We went ahead,
and today what we are seeing is a result of that.
There is no time to rest. That is gone. There are
dozens of people who are doing the same thing you are
doing, and they are trying to do it better. It is like
water in a tray: you shake it, and it will find the
path of least resistance. That is what is going to
happen to so many jobs -- they will go to that corner
of the world where there is the least resistance and
the most opportunity. If there is a skilled person in
Timbuktu, he will get work if he knows how to access
the rest of the world, which is quite easy today. You
can make a Web site and have an e-mail address and you
are up and running. And if you are able to demonstrate
your work, using the same infrastructure, and if
people are comfortable giving work to you and if you
are diligent and clean in your transactions, then you
are in business.'' 

Instead of complaining about outsourcing, Rao said,
Americans and Western Europeans would ''be better off
thinking about how you can raise your bar and raise
yourselves into doing something better. Americans have
consistently led in innovation over the last century.
Americans whining -- we have never seen that before.''


Rao is right. And it is time we got focused. As a
person who grew up during the cold war, I'll always
remember driving down the highway and listening to the
radio, when suddenly the music would stop and a
grim-voiced announcer would come on the air and say:
''This is a test. This station is conducting a test of
the Emergency Broadcast System.'' And then there would
be a 20-second high-pitched siren sound. Fortunately,
we never had to live through a moment in the cold war
when the announcer came on and said, ''This is a not a
test.'' 

That, however, is exactly what I want to say here:
''This is not a test.'' 

The long-term opportunities and challenges that the
flattening of the world puts before the United States
are profound. Therefore, our ability to get by doing
things the way we've been doing them -- which is to
say not always enriching our secret sauce -- will not
suffice any more. ''For a country as wealthy we are,
it is amazing how little we are doing to enhance our
natural competitiveness,'' says Dinakar Singh, the
Indian-American hedge-fund manager. ''We are in a
world that has a system that now allows convergence
among many billions of people, and we had better step
back and figure out what it means. It would be a nice
coincidence if all the things that were true before
were still true now, but there are quite a few things
you actually need to do differently. You need to have
a much more thoughtful national discussion.'' 

If this moment has any parallel in recent American
history, it is the height of the cold war, around
1957, when the Soviet Union leapt ahead of America in
the space race by putting up the Sputnik satellite.
The main challenge then came from those who wanted to
put up walls; the main challenge to America today
comes from the fact that all the walls are being taken
down and many other people can now compete and
collaborate with us much more directly. The main
challenge in that world was from those practicing
extreme Communism, namely Russia, China and North
Korea. The main challenge to America today is from
those practicing extreme capitalism, namely China,
India and South Korea. The main objective in that era
was building a strong state, and the main objective in
this era is building strong individuals. 

Meeting the challenges of flatism requires as
comprehensive, energetic and focused a response as did
meeting the challenge of Communism. It requires a
president who can summon the nation to work harder,
get smarter, attract more young women and men to
science and engineering and build the broadband
infrastructure, portable pensions and health care that
will help every American become more employable in an
age in which no one can guarantee you lifetime
employment. 

We have been slow to rise to the challenge of flatism,
in contrast to Communism, maybe because flatism
doesn't involve ICBM missiles aimed at our cities.
Indeed, the hot line, which used to connect the
Kremlin with the White House, has been replaced by the
help line, which connects everyone in America to call
centers in Bangalore. While the other end of the hot
line might have had Leonid Brezhnev threatening
nuclear war, the other end of the help line just has a
soft voice eager to help you sort out your AOL bill or
collaborate with you on a new piece of software. No,
that voice has none of the menace of Nikita Khrushchev
pounding a shoe on the table at the United Nations,
and it has none of the sinister snarl of the bad guys
in ''From Russia With Love.'' No, that voice on the
help line just has a friendly Indian lilt that masks
any sense of threat or challenge. It simply says:
''Hello, my name is Rajiv. Can I help you?'' 

No, Rajiv, actually you can't. When it comes to
responding to the challenges of the flat world, there
is no help line we can call. We have to dig into
ourselves. We in America have all the basic economic
and educational tools to do that. But we have not been
improving those tools as much as we should. That is
why we are in what Shirley Ann Jackson, the 2004
president of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and president of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, calls a ''quiet crisis'' -- one
that is slowly eating away at America's scientific and
engineering base. 

''If left unchecked,'' said Jackson, the first
African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from
M.I.T., ''this could challenge our pre-eminence and
capacity to innovate.'' And it is our ability to
constantly innovate new products, services and
companies that has been the source of America's horn
of plenty and steadily widening middle class for the
last two centuries. This quiet crisis is a product of
three gaps now plaguing American society. The first is
an ''ambition gap.'' Compared with the young,
energetic Indians and Chinese, too many Americans have
gotten too lazy. As David Rothkopf, a former official
in the Clinton Commerce Department, puts it, ''The
real entitlement we need to get rid of is our sense of
entitlement.'' Second, we have a serious numbers gap
building. We are not producing enough engineers and
scientists. We used to make up for that by importing
them from India and China, but in a flat world, where
people can now stay home and compete with us, and in a
post-9/11 world, where we are insanely keeping out
many of the first-round intellectual draft choices in
the world for exaggerated security reasons, we can no
longer cover the gap. That's a key reason companies
are looking abroad. The numbers are not here. And
finally we are developing an education gap. Here is
the dirty little secret that no C.E.O. wants to tell
you: they are not just outsourcing to save on salary.
They are doing it because they can often get
better-skilled and more productive people than their
American workers. 

These are some of the reasons that Bill Gates, the
Microsoft chairman, warned the governors' conference
in a Feb. 26 speech that American high-school
education is ''obsolete.'' As Gates put it: ''When I
compare our high schools to what I see when I'm
traveling abroad, I am terrified for our work force of
tomorrow. In math and science, our fourth graders are
among the top students in the world. By eighth grade,
they're in the middle of the pack. By 12th grade, U.S.
students are scoring near the bottom of all
industrialized nations. . . . The percentage of a
population with a college degree is important, but so
are sheer numbers. In 2001, India graduated almost a
million more students from college than the United
States did. China graduates twice as many students
with bachelor's degrees as the U.S., and they have six
times as many graduates majoring in engineering. In
the international competition to have the biggest and
best supply of knowledge workers, America is falling
behind.'' 

We need to get going immediately. It takes 15 years to
train a good engineer, because, ladies and gentlemen,
this really is rocket science. So parents, throw away
the Game Boy, turn off the television and get your
kids to work. There is no sugar-coating this: in a
flat world, every individual is going to have to run a
little faster if he or she wants to advance his or her
standard of living. When I was growing up, my parents
used to say to me, ''Tom, finish your dinner -- people
in China are starving.'' But after sailing to the
edges of the flat world for a year, I am now telling
my own daughters, ''Girls, finish your homework --
people in China and India are starving for your
jobs.'' 

I repeat, this is not a test. This is the beginning of
a crisis that won't remain quiet for long. And as the
Stanford economist Paul Romer so rightly says, ''A
crisis is a terrible thing to waste.'' 




Thomas L. Friedman is the author of ''The World Is
Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,''
to be published this week by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
and from which this article is adapted. His column
appears on the Op-Ed page of The Times, and his
television documentary ''Does Europe Hate Us?'' will
be shown on the Discovery Channel on April 7 at 8 p.m.




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http://us.click.yahoo.com/O.5XsA/8WnJAA/E2hLAA/BRUplB/TM
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