Globalisation 3.0

I read Tom Friedman's "From Beirut to Jerusalem" back in my McGill days and have been reading his foreign affairs column in the New York Times ever since. He's often portrayed by the left as the Bush liberal suck-up who in the run-up to the war in Iraq, was gloating at the prospect of war with Saddam (although I think he presented one of the most compelling cases for the invasion while carefully stressing the risks, the uncertainties and sounding all the right cautions (ie. democratizing Iraq would be extremely difficult; the war needed international legitimacy etc...) . I also remember the daily bashings of his book "The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalisation" back in university. But, love him or hate him, his writings and talks are always thought-provoking. His latest book, "The World Is Flat", deals again with globalisaiton, but with what he coins Globalisation 3.0, a new era we've entered where technological and political forces have converged and that have not only shrunk the world even more but also  flattened the global economic playing field . He presented his book during a fascinating talk he gave at MIT not too long ago. Quite interesting to watch him speak.