"The World Is Flat" by Tom Friedman

World Is Flat by Tom Friedman From the term "The World is flat," Tom Friedman means the international competitive ground is being leveled. It is now possible for individuals to work together and contend directly with others on different types of work from different sides of the globe and on an equivalent ground than in the world history. Friedman considers that this "flattening" around the globe is the result of ten forces.

Although most of the ten forces had existed for years, he argues that due to various convergences, these flatteners had obtained extra power at the turn of the 21st century. As a result, they formed a new worldwide web-enabled stage, which permitted a multitude of collaborations. Friedman's metaphor represents well the supporters of the resultant globalization process who contend that the whole world has become an even ground. Friedman made popular the term "the world is flat," which was the headline of his undercover journalism-based article (Friedman, 2005).

His discussion indicates that every nation nowadays is in the same game. Whether a nation is powerful or not so strong, it is in the game depending on guidelines of the competition, speed, and survival of the fittest. The stage has become even, via globalization of concepts of free market economic system (Aronica & Ramdoo, 2006). The present era is expected to be distinguished from the old methods of pulling the globe together through powerfully colonizing other lands.

Colonial powers strived to form the international business and used military competition with one another to be able to conquer territories from which they could draw out prosperity and extreme earnings. In comparison, the flat world of nowadays is represented to be the one in which the predator and prey switch the positions since, being motivated by the same financial concepts, are believed to have the same possibilities for success (Sieff, 2012).

In his advocacy that the flat world, he offers many vignettes of nations, regions, and organizations that come out as winners or losers of the free market in the globalization activity, reserving unique compliment for China's economic achievement (Friedman, 2005). Friedman insists that technological factors are driving the flat world. However, the dot-com phenomena performed an important role.

Telecommunication organizations like Global Crossing had a great amount of from investors, and they used it to engage in incredible plans to "wire the globe, " setting fiber-optic wires across the floors of oceans, linking Bangkok, Beijing and Bangalore to the advanced industrial nations. This excess supply of connection implied that the costs of internet connections, telephone calls, and data transmitting dropped considerably: many of the organizations that set these wires went insolvent.

A better bit of the article is taken up with the conversation of these technological drivers and the way the business world has reacted and tailored to them. Friedman describes the significance of the growth of software that enabled all sorts of computer applications to link and work in tandem, which is what permitted smooth collaboration by individuals working anywhere. The formation of this system, with its peculiar features, was a vital breakthrough that triggered flattening of the world (Aronica & Ramdoo, 2006).

The article ends by acknowledging that there is no way this wave will stop. It is impossible to switch off these forces, unless at a great cost to the global economic health. Nations that tried to protect their jobs, systems, traditions, and culture by locking out the rest of the world have stagnated (Friedman, 2005). Those that opened themselves up to the globe blossomed. It does not imply a country cannot do anything to prepare for this.