I liked the book, though found some technologically incorrect areas, Friedman has his thoughts well sorted out and did do his homework. The flat world has effected me a lot already as most people who know me would say. I was introduced into this huge network of technology, with websites on multiple counties when I was about 6. I started to look into this world and discover how great of a thing this could be if I could work it to my advantage. I continued my work with learning the operating system of both Mac and Windows (Mac has and is always better) and I started to tinker with programming languages. But I realized that it is nice to know those things, but someone in India, China, Japan, or down the street could replace me. So I went back to knowing the current technology the background systems so that I could use my knowledge to help people who couldn't figure things out of their computer. Then I stumbled across a program that could help anyone from anywhere in the world with their software problems. So, I started up another path the one of hardware. No one is Bangalore can plug a computer into a ethernet switch only the person who is on the physical spot can. That is an untouchable position, so I sat down so to speak and worked on that; still keeping my other areas ready for use if needed. I then found Mr. Kern Kelley and started helping the IT department converging my knowledge of software, hardware, and overall technology to become someone who could help in almost any technical way. If one job was taken out could work on another to keep me going. I am currently not old enough to work without the superintendent's permission but, I do know a few untouchables jobs I could take up. To succeed in these jobs I still need the wide spectrum of knowledge that I can get from school. I need to know by watching the progressing world, to see which jobs remain untouchable and what opens up to other people of the world. I would be a fool to try and predict what will happen to the world in the future and do not want to find a job, settle in it only to move again. Nor would I want to try to ascertain help to get a job in years from now if I don't know the job I would want or need is. I gladly embrace the flattened world because that is what I have be living in and have taught myself to succeed in. I do not know how the world will move whether we as American will come out as the world leader in technology advancements, the world will become truly flat and everyone will be at the same level, or if America will be left behind. But I do know that I am ready to adapt.
