The World Is Flat[世界是平坦的21世纪简史]

没有甚么是不可能的。随着科技不断进步，只要有宽带，只要有雄心，不管你在哪里，都不会被边缘化。即使在家里开一个工作室，一个人也可以和大企业抢生意。抹平的世界，尽是无限商机的世界。此书获纽约时报、BusinessWeek、Amazon第一畅销书，便是中文版也热销，在香港商务公布06年度畅销书榜上有名。

The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization a flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connected all over the planet, levelling the playing field as never before, so that each of us is potentially an equal and competitor of the other. The rules of the game have changed forever but does this death of distance', which requires us all to run faster in order to stay in the same place, mean the world has got too small and too flat too fast for us to adjust! Friedman brilliantly demystifies the exciting, often bewildering, global scene unfolding before our eyes, one which we sense but barely yet understand. "The World is Flat" is the most timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and its discontents, powerfully illuminated by a world-class writer.