Tom Friedman is the author of a very important recent book titled "The World is Flat". While it would be a rewarding experience for all of you to read it, we watched an MIT "open courseware" talk by Friedman in class to provide an historical context, or framework, to help you understand the immense changes that have taken place in human civilization over the past several centuries.

Here is a link to the video we watched.

Here is a link to the notes pages for the video.