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47 comments on Thomas Friedman: "Green is the New Red, White, and Blue"

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steverino on January 7, 2006 - 8:18pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
at least friedman has hopefully gotten past that "flat world" thinking....so imaginative to come up with that in 2005, when it was so 1990...now if someone with any chutzpah and power would actually take up on his latest "new thing"...do i sense a new book to flog?
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odograph on January 13, 2006 - 12:12pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I'm reading a bit from Friedman's "World is Flat" book now and then.  I guess I started the book with some mistrust, as the blog-world-view of Friedman is a bit harsh.  My opinion improved as the book started well ... but then my opinion reversed a bit as he told the dot-com story.  Having been in the computer biz, having used the first on-line services, the first private Internet accounts, and the first NCSA browser ... I KNOW that he is telling the story out of sequence a bit, and getting some of the players wrong.  On the other hand, I suppose I can admit that he gets the broad strokes right.

My current thinking is that the guy is a bit hit-and-miss, but that the hits are enough to make him worth reading ... even if you don't trust him all the way.

Waking up to energy scarcity (a mild way to say peak oil?) is a hit, and worthwhile as such.

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