Chapter 3 talks about the "The Triple Convergence", or basically just putting the 10 flatteners together to flatten our mother earth even more. Also about how you can print a boarding pass out or all the cool things a printer can do. What is he four? This wasn't a great chapter to follow the second.
Convergence I talks about how the 10 flatteners came together in a way that people could see things differently at the end of globalization 2.0. They basically created 3.0, a web-enabled world that allows for massive collaboration. Convergence II brings about a set of skills and business practices such as managers, business schools, etc that bring out the flatteners potential. Convergence III brought some 3 billion people into the free-market game from places all over the world. All these workers become some kind of global labor force.
I'm gonna call Friedman out like Alex did on Yahoo. His third convergence is nonsense. How did 3 billion people all of the sudden come out of the wood work and be able to finally "plug and play" as Friedman says. The truth is most of these 3 billion people don't even have access to the Internet. Then he cuts the 3 billion by half to 1.5 billion and cuts it even more after that. He said like only 10% of the 1.5 billion are educated or have the connectivity. That's 150 million the size of our work force. Anyways I liked the part about the Zippies and Zuppies, it's like almost like our culture with the yuppies, just 20 years behind.
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I could not agree more; chapter 3 was a waste of time and paper. I wonder who told the elitist Friedman about SWA boarding procedures since I would bet he has not stepped out of first or business class in this century. I’m glad Friedman was able to figure out he could use his printer to print a boarding pass at 12:01 AM, but I can’t have sympathy on him for having to stay up past his bedtime the way he seemed to be needing it. Further, for Friedman to think his readers were dumb enough to not notice the globalization of the world during events such as the dot-com era and 9/11 is insulting. What a disappointment after chapter 2!
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