{"id":106,"date":"2005-11-07T16:50:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T16:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/07\/the-world-is-flat-a-brief-history-of-the-twenty-first-century\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T12:48:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T19:48:19","slug":"the-world-is-flat-a-brief-history-of-the-twenty-first-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/11\/07\/the-world-is-flat-a-brief-history-of-the-twenty-first-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-106\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0374292884\/qid=1131410957\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/102-9495726-4240950?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\" target=\"NewWindow\">The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Thomas L. Friedman<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardcover: <\/strong>496 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Farrar, Straus and Giroux<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0374292884<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I got to read this book &#8211; I got it by responding to a survey by<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"> Infosys.  Friedman ties a bunch of seemingly separated things into a cloth<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"> that defines the flattening, or convergence, of the world.  Its caused me<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"> to look at some things as I travel very differently (in a similar vein to<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"> Investment Biker).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-106\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 106);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-106\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-106\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Author: Thomas L. Friedman Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374292884 I&#8217;m glad I got to read this book &#8211; I got it by responding to a survey by Infosys. Friedman ties a bunch of seemingly separated things into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}