The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Many would know this book is about GLOBALIZATION: there are 10 "flattening" effects and they converge in various situations.

Is it posing a threat or providing opportunities to us?

What do those Sept 11, in 1989 when Berlin Wall fell, in 1991 when George HW Bush coined the "New World Order" in the State of Union, and in 2001 when more than 3 thousand innocent lives were lost to a terrorist attack, reveal to us under this globalization context?


There's an inspiring African proverb/ wise saying:

Every morning lions have to make sure they run faster than gazelles so that the former won't fall prey to the latter, or the former will get killed.

Every morning gazelles have to make sure they run faster than lions which can be their breakfast, or they will starve to death.

Under this globalization, nations are in the same relationship between lions and gazelles: to kill or get killed, or to have or not to have, that is the question every day we face.


Anyway, if you don't go with the flattening effects, the Globalization Express is going to flatten you fair and square.