Thomas Friedman

“When I wrote that the world is flat I wasn’t suggesting, of course, that it was getting physically flat or that we were all becoming economically equal. What the book argued was that a combination of technological, market, and geopolitical events at the end of the twentieth century had leveled the global economic playing field in a way that was enabling more people than ever, from more places than ever to take part in the global economy—and, in the best of cases, to enter the middle class.” (pg. 29 – Hot, Flat and Crowded)