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Despite the personal disgruntlement expressed by so many, there are some very important points here worth considering: Individual influence and opportunity and which nationalities are embracing it; the transcendence of geopolitical boarders; etc. Technology has and will continue to level the playing field. Those of us third and fourth generation industrial-agers will have the usefulness of the wagon wheel compared with those of the techno age who embrace ingenuity, creativity, and personal responsibility. Beware the lessons of Athens.
I love this video and want to show it to my students. Unfortunately, autogenerated captions do not meet the ADA accessibility requirements for my class. Could you edit/update the captions to ensure they are correct and have capitalization/punctuation? Thank you!!!
Our future economy and our competitive position in the world will depend on inexpensive and abundant energy. Energy is the basis of all of the world's economies. The country that has the lowest cost of clean energy will have a significant leg up in the future world economy.The source of energy for most of the economies in the world today is oil,coal and natural gas. These are are purchased on a worldwide market. We all pay the going rate we all have the same basic cost of energy.
Amazing speech that lets us see what is really happening in this vastly interconnected world when we only tend to think about ourselves. There is more going on in the world that we know and we have to be prepared to face these unforeseen challenges or we will be left in the dust as Freidman emphasized.
Yo got an assignment of this speech , here it is what I wrote, Thank me later!! Tom Friedman is an American political commentator and author. He wrote the famous book “The world is flat” when a question came to his mind “why everyone hates America.” In the quest of finding the answer to this question, he went to India and conducted many interviews with famous people there. In his last interview with Nandan(CEO of infosys), he told Tom that “ the global economic field is being leveled and you Americans are not ready ” and that was the day when the idea of writing a book named “ the world is flat” came to the mind of Tom. In this book he said we entered the globalization 3.0 from 2000 to the present and it is shrinking the world form size small to size tiny and flattening the global economic playing field at the same time. He said this era of globalization is spearheaded by individuals. The PC allowed the individuals to author their own content in digital form. Netscape (a startup company) brought the internet to life by giving the world “browser” which led to the overinvestment of fiber optic cables in 5 years. The transmission protocols has made everyone’s computers and software interoperable. When the world was round, we were able to download the content but when world became flat, we were also able to upload the content. Now the world is a platform that allows individuals more equal ability to plug and play, compete, connect, and collaborate globally. This globalization has changed the world form vertical to horizontal. He further talks about some rules in his book, these rules are as follows: 1) Whatever can be done, will be done. 2) The most important economic competition is going to be between you and your own imagination. 3) How well you learn to collaborate on this platform. He said edgy inspiration and innovation comes from having two or more specialities and applying framework of one speciality to the framework of another. At the end he said, we need to change the leaders who write the rules and who trigger the innovation, otherwise we will defeat.
I don't quite understand why there was such a spirited defense of free trade but I don't see why everyone hates this speech so much in the comments. Seemed fine to me.
This is the one of the most awful speakers I have ever heard. It makes the audience feel like he's reading a prerehearsed lecture off a teleprompter. No humor, complete lack of audience interaction or even acknowledgement, and extremely over-the-top verbose. It's a shame because the content of his speech is phenomenal.
