Why is the world flat, and is the world really flat?

The World Is Flat" by Friedman.

I've been reading this book lately, and I'm giving my personal opinion:

To say that the earth is round is geographically speaking, and to say that it is flat is because the rapid circulation of information resources today has caused society to shrink sharply so that "the end of the world is close at hand", and the world is flat, and you can see the boundaries at a glance and understand the situation in various parts of the world. I think this "flat" also has the meaning of equality, now a person living in ** will not have much impact on his future development, due to the rapid development of the "outsourcing" market, as Friedman said, workers in China and India compete as fairly as workers in the United States, and the geographical advantage no longer exists.

It's a shallow learner, please advise more....^_

Last week, a friend gave me a book called "The World is Flat" and said that I would get a lot of good ideas from it.

In the past few days, whenever I have free time, I will soak in the café and flip through the pages, the whole book is about 400 pages, I just want to read it intensively.

But after reading the first chapter, I changed my mind and decided to read it in depth and took notes.

The author, Friedman, is a journalist who has traveled the globe.

He divides globalization into three phases.

Globalization is mainly the integration of countries, which began in 1492 when Columbus opened the door to the old and new worlds, and until around 1800 AD, the labor force drove this stage of the globalization process;

Globalization was a convergence of companies, which lasted from 1800 to 2000 AD, interrupted by the Great Depression and the two world wars, with hardware innovations playing a major driving force – from steamships and railroads to the popularization of ** and computers;

In globalization, the individual has become the protagonist, skin color or cultural differences between the East and the West are no longer the threshold for cooperation or competition, and the continuous innovation of software has made it easy for people on both sides of the ocean to realize their social division of labor through submarine fiber optic cables.

As a result of recently watching "The Rise of Great Powers", I have a deeper understanding of the first phase.

Personally, I have also experienced the latter part of the second stage, and I have felt it and suffered a lot.

On the contrary, he felt that "globalization has the greatest impact."

The World is Flat" mentions ten factors that contribute to fair competition in the world.

Five of them are caused by technology, and it seems that technology is the change that dominates the world.

Cultural ideas seem to have been excluded.

Read this book to help us grasp how to adapt to the future.

Flat and round are both relative, and different angles have different answers.

In fact, the world is round. It's just that we're too small. I don't feel it. Besides, the earth has a gravitational pull.

Of course, the earth is flat.

The world is only in your heart, you can be what you want the world to be, everything is only in your own imagination.

A peaceful world is therefore peaceful.

Nobody said it was flat! Because it's flat, it's flat.

The earth is round, and this is a matter of human perspective. An object, the farther away from a person, appears smaller, and the closer it is to a person, the larger it appears.

Human beings are on the earth, relative to the earth, a person is like a drop of water in the sea, it is impossible to see the whole earth at a glance, and the earth is an approximate sphere, its surface is a curved surface, people stand on the earth, the place where the curved surface bends down is the horizon, and what you see is the plane.

At an altitude of 100 km, the horizon is seen 1100 km away. At a distance of 3,500 kilometers from the surface, you will be able to see the entire Earth.

Through a series of arguments, the argumentator concludes that with the spread of the internet, the world will become flat. However, due to the many flaws in the argumentation process, the argument is debatable.

First, the rapid development of information technology does not necessarily provide the same message to rich and poor countries. The popularization of the Internet is to allow more regions to receive information, but this is also available in areas with the Internet. Therefore, it is even more impossible to deduce that the world is flat.

Second, China's development does not push the world to be flat. Although the development of China's economy is inseparable from the popularization of Internet technology, it is also closely related to China's national conditions, institutional measures and other aspects.

Moreover, will the development of information technology eventually make the world a place where there is no difference? Obviously, this is unreasonable. The level of Internet development is different between underdeveloped countries and developed countries, and perhaps the dissipation of strong economic capacity in developed countries can promote a higher level of information technology, but it is likely that the real situation is that the difference between developed and underdeveloped countries is getting bigger and bigger.

Finally, the economic divide between China's East and West cannot be bridged by information technology. In addition to information technology, the development of China's eastern and western regions is also related to various aspects such as geographical location, institutional policies, etc., and the imbalance in development is the result of a combination of multiple factors, so this view cannot be introduced.

To sum up, it is precisely because the material has the above logical defects in the process of argumentation that the validity of its argument is also debatable.

The world is uneven, and rich and poor countries are not on the same page. When catching up with advanced countries and seeking a peaceful rise, the 'digital divide' is difficult to bridge, and the technological development of each day has brought a real threat to our traditional culture. Even in the sole superpower, the cult of technology and scientism are causing serious harm.

The above criticism is still unfinished, and it is a pity that it is reserved and still to be treated.

What's the regret? At that time, I thought that my critique of "The World is Flat" was not closely related to the theme of "The Chinese Translator's Postscript" of "Technology Monopoly", and it was probably defocused, so it was better to abridge. As a result, a large paragraph of text bridge brother paragraph omitted Minyu.

Ten years later, Bosman's critique of "entertainment to death" has profoundly influenced Chinese's reflection on popular culture, and "Technology Monopoly" has had an impact on China's scientific and humanistic circles.

On March 22, 2017, I was invited to speak at the "Boya Forum" of Central China Normal University on "The World is Not Flat", and I had the opportunity to restore the text that was abridged 10 years ago.

In December 2017, he was invited to revise "Technology Monopoly" for CITIC Press, and published the second edition, and finally had the opportunity to officially restore the following paragraphs here

Recently, when I read Thomas Friedman's book "The World is Flat", I was deeply touched and emotional.

People in developed countries should realize that developing countries are equal in terms of culture and other aspects, but there are differences in historical backgrounds and so on. The Indian branch did not meet the required time standards, but later after the people of the two countries ran in, it was achieved, which shows that it is not that they are not capable, but they do not understand the company's products and culture, on the contrary, the male protagonist feels that he is not suitable for Indian life, and it is only a lack of understanding of India.

The above is a personal opinion. Attached plot:

This is a love story full of humor. Todd Anderson is a customer ** sales center worker at a Seattle company. Suddenly, one day, Todd and his team are suddenly fired, his job is assigned to another company, and to make matters worse, his final assignment is to travel to Mumbai, India, to train his replacements.

He was prepared for the impending catastrophe of life. In the first few days of his arrival in India, Todd was distressed by the chaos of Mumbai and the discomforts of life. The company's near-paralysis due to a cultural misunderstanding drove Todd even more crazy.

However, as he gets to know his colleagues better, Todd senses their friendliness, and even his future replacement, Pro, and the charismatic and opinionated Aisha seem cute. Todd found that he had a lot to learn — about India, about the United States, about himself — and that the expatriate experience was perhaps the best thing for both Todd and his colleagues in India. Eventually, Todd assimilates into American culture and has a wonderful exotic relationship with Aisha, an Indian girl.

The author illustrates that the world is flattening through the analysis of some of the phenomena of globalization around the world. It explains in simple terms the impact of world flattening on society, countries, enterprises, and individuals, and how the latter should respond to a series of changes brought about by globalization.

Work is needed, and where there is a need for help and pay, it is the place to work, and you can do it as long as you want (provided that it does not violate the laws of the country).

Disagree, this view is rather one-sided, the dark Middle Ages are only for some European countries, but these countries after the Middle Ages social and economic development rapidly surpassed other ancient civilizations, leading them to think: their history is the history of the world, and their experience is the experience of mankind. However, it is indeed incomprehensible that when the traditional ancient civilizations were stuck in the cultural origins, the countries that had passed through the dark Middle Ages were as quickly ahead of the world as if they would not die and would be blessed.

Agree. Because of the development of modern science and technology and the increasing integration of the global economy, the barriers between countries are getting smaller and smaller, and the world is becoming more and more "flat", which will have an important impact on enterprises and individuals.

The World is Flat" was originally the name of a best-selling book that swept the world, and its author was Thomas Friedman, an American journalist and columnist who graduated from Oxford University. In this book, the author mainly puts forward the view that "the world is flat" because of the increasing development of communication technology and the increasing global integration of the global economy.

Disagree, first of all, there are undulating mountains on the surface, low-lying deep seas, and the physical world is uneven. At the level of consciousness, because everyone has subjectivity, this makes the communication between people potholes, and it is difficult to unify ideology and consciousness, so the world in consciousness is also uneven. Because there is a difference in consciousness, the society is unfair, and equality before the law is just an appropriate wording, but in fact, in the process of law enforcement, because of the subjective differences of law enforcers, completely different results will be produced, and different people will be treated differently, so the society is unfair.

The world is flat, a bit like my kindness. I have done all the things that lack virtue, and I will find a priest to repent, the world should be peaceful, I should not destroy equality, I am kind, let me repent. Later, it was restored according to the original, and the nature was difficult to change.

Only when society has developed into a humanistic society, democracy is fully embodied, and social harmony is high, can it be meaningful to talk about the world being equal.

Disagree that the world is a three-dimensional space, and there are many ways to understand things, Ping means that everyone has the same understanding of the management economy, but in fact, every management scholar has a unique understanding. For example, there are some things that some people want to do, and some people don't want to do them.

The world is round, and the answer to this question was hundreds of years ago. According to physical theories, the assumptions and speculations about the universe put forward under certain assumptions are called cosmic models.

The famous scientist Albert Einstein established the physical theory of general relativity in 1915. This theory holds that there is no absolute space and absolute time in the universe, and that neither space nor time can be separated from matter, and that both space and time are disturbed by matter. Gravity is the effect of the curvature of space, which is determined by the presence of matter. Einstein applied his theories to the study of the universe, and in 1917 he published "A Cosmological Investigation According to the General Theory of Relativity", in which he applied the gravitational field equations of the general theory of relativity to the entire universe and established a model of the universe.

At that time, scientists generally believed that the universe was stationary and did not change with time. Although American astronomer Shriver had discovered the spectral redshift of extragalactic galaxies a few years ago (apparently a challenge to the geostationary universe), the news did not reach Europe because it was the time of World War I. Therefore, Einstein, like most scientists, believed that the universe was static.

Einstein wanted to start with the gravitational field Wangtan equation and arrive at an answer that the universe is static, homogeneous, and isotropic. But the solution he obtains is unstable, showing that the whole room and distance are not constant, but changeable from time to time. In order to get a solution where space is stable, Einstein artificially introduced a term called the "cosmological constant" into the gravitational field equation and made it act as a repulsive force.

Einstein came up with a finite and boundless static model of the universe called the Einstein model of the universe. For ease of understanding, it can be compared to a two-dimensional sphere in three-dimensional space: the sphere has a finite area, but there is no boundary and no center along the sphere, and the sphere remains static.

A few years later, when Einstein learned that galaxies outside the river were receding and the universe was expanding, he regretted adding a cosmological constant term to his model, saying that it was the biggest mistake he had made in his life. Something is wrong with your question. So it can only be what you do. I'm sorry.