Comments on: India and that flat world book http://blog.brettmoller.com/2006/05/22/india-and-that-flat-world-book/ Technology Resources for Educators Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:25:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Ray Tapajnahttp://blog.brettmoller.com/2006/05/22/india-and-that-flat-world-book/#comment-122 Ray Tapajna Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:56:36 +0000 http://blog.brettmoller.com/?p=98#comment-122 Ray Tapajna, editor and artist, for Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews questions the data and concepts by Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat at http://tapsearch.com/flatworld. There are now hundreds of references under Tapart News and/or Flat World Tapajna on Google etc. Basically, Friedman ignores the real world in many ways. Number one, he ignores the fact that workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade among many other questionable factors. Essentially most of the new high tech technology is quite different from what was intended by those of us who were part of the beginning and part of ever generation in computers. Much of the technology are just toys for the upper 20% class made by an underclass of workers. If the Flat World is true, it will implode. Imagine 400 million automobiles in India, China etc. See also "communications by rank", "the unnetted" and "if you are not part of any network, you do not exist". at http://www.experiencedesignernetwork.com/archives/000636.htmlWe tell the young to stay away from high technology in the Flat World because everyone in the world are competing for the same jobs. We tell them to find something geographically bound or exclusive for paticular reasons. It is senseless for workers to become the main commodities of Free Trade. There is no Workers Dignity especially when they have no voice in the matter. Ray Tapajna, editor and artist, for Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews questions the data and concepts by Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat at http://tapsearch.com/flatworld. There are now hundreds of references under Tapart News and/or Flat World Tapajna on Google etc.
Basically, Friedman ignores the real world in many ways. Number one, he ignores the fact that workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade among many other questionable factors. Essentially most of the new high tech technology is quite different from what was intended by those of us who were part of the beginning and part of ever generation in computers. Much of the technology are just toys for the upper 20% class made by an underclass of workers. If the Flat World is true, it will implode. Imagine 400 million automobiles in India, China etc.
See also “communications by rank”, “the unnetted” and “if you are not part of any network, you do not exist”. at http://www.experiencedesignernetwork.com/archives/000636.html

We tell the young to stay away from high technology in the Flat World because everyone in the world are competing for the same jobs. We tell them to find something geographically bound or exclusive for paticular reasons. It is senseless for workers to become the main commodities of Free Trade. There is no Workers Dignity especially when they have no voice in the matter.

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