TY - BOOK AU - Friedman, Thomas L. TI - World is flat: the globalized world in the twenty-first century SN - 9780141034898 U1 - 303.4833 FRI PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Diffusion of innovations KW - Globalization -- Economic aspects KW - Globalization -- Social aspects KW - Information society N1 - Diffusion of innovations N2 - The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalisation -- a 'flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that s ER -