FLAT AND FLATTER WHO NEEDS AN INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

when you can build a new concrete and steel silk road, from China to Europe and Africa, in a flat world?

 

What matter, this or that virtual, IT, WWW innovation, when you can coopt them, and, moreover, when you can physically take over the flat world, between Europe Africa and Asia?

I don't intend to flatter Friedman by suggesting that there are flatter things than are dreamed of in his philosophy.