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Title: Overbroad, obvious, badly in need of editing
Review: This book will be a revelation to anyone who has been without access to newspapers or cable TV for the past 10 years. For everyone else, it takes a comically obvious and general idea ("technology is changing the world") and beats it into the ground across 600 flabby pages by rehashing anecdotes you've read a thousand times before (Another retelling of the Netscape IPO? Puhleeze.)Friedman wants to be Michael Lewis, but he lacks the focus, the intelligence or the wit. So he settles for being Forrest Gump, criss-crossing the globe in search of more filler for his book.Somewhere in here is material that would've made a good feature article for Wired. As it stands, it's about as enlightening as watching your parents sign up for their first AOL account. Anyone under the age of 40 will be bored to tears. If you want to learn something, buy Garner's Modern American Usage.
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