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Title: Where are the people? Where is the education?
Review: Seldom has such a well-hyped book been such a waste of time. The obvious is belabored. Technology has had a leveling effect, and international connectivity has changed the way we do business. Hello? Even George W. Bush knows that, and he doesn't know much of anything.It's a dehumanizing book as well. And scant attention is paid to education. Increasingly, we live in a world like Friedman's, where no one really needs to KNOW anything. Why learn math when you've got a calculator? Why learn spelling when you've got a spellcheck? why learn History or Literature when all that matters is Business?I like books that point the way toward light, not those that take us further into the darkness. 30 minutes spent with Morris Berman's THE TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN CULTURE is worth more than 30 hours spent with this one.I can't think of a thing in this book that someone with a reasonable amount of common sense hasn't already figured out.
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