TY - BOOK AU - Friedman,Thomas L. TI - The world is flat : the globalized world in the twenty-first century SN - 9780141034898 U1 - 823 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Diffusion of innovations KW - Information society KW - Globalization KW - Economic aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Internationalisatie KW - Politieke aspecten. KW - Economische aspecten. N1 - [Release] "3.0 expanded ed."--P. ix; Includes index; How the World Became Flat --; 1; While I Was Sleeping --; 2; The Ten Forces That Flattened the World --; Flattener #1; 11/9/89 --; Flattener #2; 8/9/95 --; Flattener #3; Work Flow Software --; Flattener #4; Uploading --; Flattener #5; Outsourcing --; Flattener #6; Offshoring --; Flattener #7; Supply-Chaining --; Flattener #8; Insourcing --; Flattener #9; In-forming --; Flattener #10; The Steroids --; 3; The Triple Convergence --; 4; The Great Sorting Out --; America and the Flat World --; 5; America and Free Trade --; 6; The Untouchables --; 7; The Right Stuff --; 8; The Quiet Crisis --; 9; This Is Not a Test --; Developing Countries and the Flat World --; 10; The Virgin of Guadalupe --; Companies and the Flat World --; 11; How Companies Cope --; You and the Flat World --; 12; Globalization of the Local --; 13; If It's Not Happening, It's Because You're Not Doing It --; 14; What Happens When We All Have Dog's Hearing? --; Geopolitics and the Flat World --; 15; The Unflat World --; 16; The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention --; Conclusion: Imagination --; 17; 11/9 Versus 9/11 ER -