2007-03-15: Friedman Flat World talk at MIT
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[edit] The World is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
On March16, 2005 Friedamn gave an inspiration lecture at MIT on the first 3 chapters of his book The World is Flat. Intro by Charles Vest, former MIT President. Some notes here by RBH:
Friedman is champion of:
- Value of opnenees
- Importance Sci & Tech
- Education in Sci & Tech
Friedman: Conducted interviews on the other side of outsourcing - Bangalor. While I have been spleeping (2001-2004) - Something big happened in the globalization. The global economic playing field is beeing laveled (flattend) - Americans are not ready for the consequences.
Three stages of globalization:
- Globalization 1.0 1492 - 1800 Large to small Countries globalizing Spain, Briton Imperiosa - Agent was the countrey
- Globalization 2.0 1800-2000 Medium to small Comapies globalizing
- Globalization 3.0 2000 - Small to tiny - driven by individuals, small groups globalizing
New is that individuals think globally - the next revolution will not be by white western individuals - but by all colors
[edit] 10 Flatteners
1. 11/9/89 Berlin Wall came down windows Operating System upsing - see think of world as one - there was a wall before
2. 8/9/95 Netscape browser brought the internet alive people could connect to each transmission protocols - interoperability , triggered the dotcom boo - overinvestmentment into fiberoptic cable - keeps giving made Bejing Bangalor connected - glut of fiber allowd free communication
3. Workflow all software from standards - allows the work to flow - applications did not connect - 90s people are able to work together
Genesis moment: Netscape revolution people allowed to connect communicate ; Workflow more apps connecting -> we careated was a global platform for multiple form of collaboration. More people could collaborate and connect on more stuff than ever before that was the genesis moment.
Additional 6 new forms of clooaboration
4. Outsourcing 5. Offshoring 6. Open sourcing - new form of collaboration, Open University - of MIT 7. Supply chaining - Walmart dont make anything - created an efficiant - making easy - supply chain tough 8. Insourcing 9. Informing - Google - collaborating search collaborate with data
Flatteners 1-3 created the new platforms of multiple forms of collaboration;
10. "Steroids" - Wireless, VoP, FileSharing - turbocharging the other forms
[edit] Triple Convergengence: 10 Flatteners - Adoptation to Horizontal - India, China, F Soviet Union
Around 2000, three huge convergences that will shape the 21st century
FIRST CONVERGENCE: all 10 flatteners converged into a tipping point where the complementarities all started to work together. informing helped outsorucing and when they converged, they created the flat world - global web-enabled platform for multiple forms of sharing knowledge and work, irrespective of time, distance, geography or even language. More people can plug and play.
SECOND CONVERGENCE: Just starting - We are all having to work how to horizontalize ourselves, to adapt our business processes, study habits, innovative approaches to this new platform. We are going from a world where value is created in vertical silos (stovepipes) of command and control, to a wold where valu will be crated increasingly horizontally by who you connect and collaborate with. Going from vertical to horizontal is just happening.
Paul David, Stanford on Electrification - why did electrification not produce the productivity boost - the infrstructure, managers, architects... were not ready for th enew mode. million structures and habits had to be changed. but boom, once they changed at the tipping point, then we really got the productivity boost from electrification. We are at the beginning of doing the same thing with this horizontal paltform, changing our habits of horizontalizing ourselves. SW airlines story
THIRD CONVERGENGE: Just as convergences 1 and 2 happened, three huge economies opend up [students, faculty] India, China, Soviet Union. 3 billion people enterd the playing field. When they arrived, they could plug and play, compete, connect and collaborate with your kids an mine, more cheaply and effectively the ever before.
10% of 3bill is 300 mill, double the size of the american workforce. Argument of the book is that the convergence of 10 flatteners, with changing business processes, with 3 bill new players, that will shape the brief history of the 21 century.
Changes will change everithing. Going from Vertical to Horizontal, the mother of all inflection points. As big as Gottenberg,
IT revolution in the 90s was the beginning. It was just the wormup act. The forging, sharpening and distribution of th etools of collaboration. We are at the end of the beginning. What we are now about to see is the real IT revolution. Fasten seat belts, put your seats backs and tray tables into an upright position
[edit] Q & A Discussion
What are the implications for MIT?: OpenUniversity powerful platform making knowlede accessible - trigger a innovation. Quet crises: - Sputnik, "Man on the Moon" generation is retireing, dying out; Replacements are imported from India & China
Since 9/11 ...in the flat world, (1) you can innovate without having to emmigrate, who needs to come to chilly Bosten whaen you can stay home in your own culture, be home with your family, having a high standard of living, work for a cutting edge global corporation, or cutting edge science (2) we are telling draft choices to stay home; our reaction to 9/11, 1000 little staps, from visa rejection, to grant denial, research paper blocked, eats at the very DNA of openness, interoperability, and interactiveness with the world. In 50 years we wake up and say we did all that in reaction to 9/11.
New Jobs? In a flat world, global market increases -> and it gets more complex, faster -> produces more and more new jobs, new nitches, 'serach engine optimizer' job..knowledge worker may have to move horizontally into a different knowlwdge job. if you are not a knowledge worker, you need to move vertically - the vertical leap is going to get higher ..the challenge is how to get the people from non-knowledge into the knowlwdge world. so the priority is how to get every american who wants education is able to get it.
Openness and Security? 11/9 or 9/11 flat world Everithing gets commoditized, except imagination - [NSF fifth dimension] tools of collaboration will be avaialble to everybody. Tlat world is a friend of and Al Quaida Past 20 years, two forms of immagination: 11/9 bringing down the Berlin Wall and the other 9/11 bringing down the towers. In 89 Hungay, someone sayd to open the boarders to Austria for East Germans which might bring down the Berlin Wall. In Kandahar, someone imagined that if the toewers are hit between the 94 and 98 floors, it might bring down the towers. These are the two competing froms of imagination in the world. The challenge is how to have more people have more imagination. Example eBay - is like a virtual country. 100 billion economy, 30 mill people. America needs to export hope and not fear. Rhusar 00:22, 16 March 2007 (CST)
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Tomas Friedman, The World is Flat lecture at MIT: Comments on del.icio.us bookmarking
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- Instead of reading the book, see this lecture.
- In “Globalization 3.0,” Thomas L. Friedman contends, people from far-flung places will become principal players in the marketplace.
- In his latest book, The World is Flat, Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the economic world, and “accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore and Bethesda next-door neighbors.” Today, “indi
- Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, “Grandma Betty in her bathrobe” will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt Lake City home. In “Globalizati
- While "The World is Flat" meme has been overplayed, I do recommend that if you haven't seen one of Freiman's book talks that you check out this presentation.
[edit] Citations Friedman The World is Flat
Wired: Why the World Is Flat The playing field is being leveled, says globalization guru Thomas Friedman - from Shanghai to Silicon Valley, from al Qaeda to Wal-Mart. ...But you are outlining an explicit agenda.....You can't be a citizen of this country and not be in a hair-pulling rage at the fact that we're at this inflection moment and nobody seems to be talking about the kind of policies we need to get through this flattening of the world... We need to have as focused, as serious, as energetic, as sacrificing a strategy for dealing with flatism as we did for communism. This is the challenge of our day. (Is this the driver for doupling the budget of NSF in the next 10 years?) American Comppetiveness Initiative
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