From the Book - 1st updated and expanded ed.
How the World Became Flat. While I was sleeping
The ten forces that flattened the world
America and the Flat World. America and free trade
Developing Countries and the Flat World. The Virgin of Guadalupe.
Companies and the Flat World. How companies cope.
Geopolitics and the Flat World. The unflat world
Globalization of the local
The Dell theory of conflict prevention.
From the Audiobook on CD - Updated and expanded edition.
Pt. [1]: How the world became flat. While I was sleeping
The ten forces that flattened the world: 11/9/89 (when the walls came down and the windows went up) ; 8/9/95 (when Netscape went public) ; Work flow software (let's do lunch: have your application talk to my application) ; Open-sourcing (self-organizing collaborative communities) ; Outsourcing (Y2K) ; Offshoring (when China joined the WTO) ; Supply-chaining (Wal-Mart) ; Insourcing (UPS) ; In-forming (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Web Search) ; The steroids (digital, mobile, personal, and virtual)
pt. [2]: America and the flat world. America and free trade (is Ricardo still right?)
pt. [3] Developing countries and the flat world. The virgin of Guadalupe.
pt. [4] Companies and the flat world. How companies cope.
pt. [5] Geopolitics and the flat world. The unflat world
The Dell theory of conflict prevention.
Conclusion. Imagination: 11/9 versus 9/11.