Vitor Rodrigues

I just finished reading the most recent best-selling book from Thomas Friedman: “The World is Flat”. It is definitely a very interesting read about how the world is becoming leveraged nowadays, mostly because of the surging of high speed internet connections all over the world and the opening of some cultures to the world.

I was both amazed and amused by Friedman’s research! It is incredible the large amount of trips and interviews the author did during the research phase for this book and the perfect location of each and every quotation and conversation. The way Friedman positions the real-world examples makes all of his concepts become simple and clearly understandable.

Along with the top quality research, another aspect of the book that captivated me was that describes several perspectives of the flat world, corresponding to several places in the world, from US, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, India, China and many others. It is also noteworthy the effort of the author in promote collaboration over and over again as the way to build our future.

 I definitely recommend this book, and give it 9 in a 1-10 scale. If you decided to read it, take a deep breath, because it is 650 pages long (english version) with a smaller than average size font. Good readings!

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