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The Friedman Frequency

By Tim Willette

The World Is Flat - A Brief History of the
Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 496 pp.
ISBN: 0374292884

Everyone get global! 2004! Better lot! American
products wanted! Bangalore call center! Indian phone
work! Chinese supply chain! UPS! Free market! India,
China, America! Even Muslim customers use internet!

See! Flattening forces started! Web went economic!
Information business! Big science! Research come home!
Need money now!

Employees own two percent! Another first! Able workers
got down!

University! Computer school! People should go!
Knowledge good! Young really know! Different software!

Still, things take time! Think government! Want
service today! Right, say companies! Million years!
Countries going! Technology put states between jobs!

Best part next! New day! Flat system! Whole world
united! These are the 100 most frequently used words in
this book!



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