After reading half of The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, and listening to Charles C. Mann lecture on his recent bestseller, 1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus; I have become to understand more about a world that belongs to everyone. For too long have certain societies and certain histories been selectively available for mass consumption. With cross-disciplinary research by collaborating scientists, anthropologists, ecologists and historians, Mann has unearthed and uncovered a wealth of incredible new insights and knowledge and the flat world’s connectivity means that these revelations are not lost on paper but spread by wires and satellite to the world. The context of these facts is unmistakable. Facts can be hidden no longer. Only those nations with their leaders’ heads-in-the-sand won’t be able predict the implications of this. There will be no more Tiananmen Square massacres that won’t see immediate exposure and events such as Abu Ghraib cannot be brushed under the rug. We are heading towards a future of global digitization and the prospects for true democracy around the world are more promising than any show of force America can export. “You can’t stop the signal, Mal”.
http://www.amazon.com/World-Flat-Updated-Expanded-Twenty-first/dp/0374292795/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-1078576-3763925?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173051153&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-1078576-3763925?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173051384&sr=1-1
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