There's an enthralling video for Friedman-future inquirers at http://mitworld.mit.edu/stream/264/
It describes the origins of World is Flat research to an MIT audience
Apparently up to sept 10 2001, Friedman's articles in NY Times had rotated between two serails with headline brand logos: Olive and Lexus -Olive being Friedman's open conversation and ongoing search on why are so many local to global conflicts compounding - what's the story from the grassroots up.
Within 48 hours, Thomas says he decided to focus wholly on Olive stories which he did for the next 3 years. He had started doing some videos for the discovery channel- and decided his next inquiry would involve going round interviewing young people around the world who work in call centres and put on American acccents as part of the outsourcing world's trade. This took on renewed impact when Kerry started campaigning against American CEos who outsourced as the New Benedict Arnolds.
Outsourcing as a global controversy was suddenly hitting every newspaper headline. To expedite research Friedman decide to visit primary 2 places - Bangalore to hear the local view of the outsourcing phenomenon and silicon vallley whose future concepts for technology determines how outsource capabilities and much of 21st C world trade and communications crises around the www evolve. The rest is classic fututre history so to speak as anyone who has joined debates with death of distance newtorks since 1984 can openly testify http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com
It describes the origins of World is Flat research to an MIT audience
Apparently up to sept 10 2001, Friedman's articles in NY Times had rotated between two serails with headline brand logos: Olive and Lexus -Olive being Friedman's open conversation and ongoing search on why are so many local to global conflicts compounding - what's the story from the grassroots up.
Within 48 hours, Thomas says he decided to focus wholly on Olive stories which he did for the next 3 years. He had started doing some videos for the discovery channel- and decided his next inquiry would involve going round interviewing young people around the world who work in call centres and put on American acccents as part of the outsourcing world's trade. This took on renewed impact when Kerry started campaigning against American CEos who outsourced as the New Benedict Arnolds.
Outsourcing as a global controversy was suddenly hitting every newspaper headline. To expedite research Friedman decide to visit primary 2 places - Bangalore to hear the local view of the outsourcing phenomenon and silicon vallley whose future concepts for technology determines how outsource capabilities and much of 21st C world trade and communications crises around the www evolve. The rest is classic fututre history so to speak as anyone who has joined debates with death of distance newtorks since 1984 can openly testify http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com