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Title: The Book Is Flat
Review: I kept reading. Sooner or later, I kept telling myself, Friedman will tell me something I don't already know. Alas, it never happened. This book consists of 469 pages of stuff you can read in newspapers, in magazines, or experience personally every day. Is there anyone out there who has not yet had an experience with an Indian call center? Is there anyone who is not aware that increasingly high tech jobs, and even management jobs, are being outsourced, and that the USA is falling behind in math, science and engineering education? There may be a good 100 page book somewhere in all those pages trying to get out, but it is so buried underneath the commonplace it is hard to find. It's not that this is a bad book. It's just that most (all?) people who would read such a book should already know everything that Friedman talks about, and that most (all?) of those who would benefit from it would not be drawn to read it in the first place.
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