I had just finished Friedman's colossal dream villa of flat earth imagined as a converging node of all waves and signals more geographically
focussed to the US and its hegemony. And, to this humble service it finds India a most suitable choice of manpower who could be taken into its specific tasks that it needs to face the
converngence of Russia, China or for that matter any possible combination of societal and popular imaginations and energies that it can thwart or so. The
bigggest feeling is already conspicuous on the agenda of global warming and here it also finds India as suitable ally in shouldering most of it's
resposibilities in this regard. The notion that technology is the sole saviour of the earth's burnt and bruised face, is just hypothetical just as any virtue, one can talk of. But, how this technology is going to be adapted and what are
theosts of transition and who is going to bear it are the real social and political questions that one really has to take care of.
Friedman has taken too much optimistic attitude in this book called the World is Flat. There is no problem with the attitude but the real question is how and what are the texture of this flat earth. What constitutes this flatness for the people. Are the time-space gap transitions really sum up the whole thing as flat. Or, if there is so linear momentum of social and political relations across the territories that one can see that there is really
flat earth more homogenised in is behaviour or communication. Truly, he is more convenient in
proposition for he opts to ignore the frictional drags that are more prevalent than ever before. The
heightening of state rowdiness and the flaring of communal and fundamentalist sentiments in democracies is an opposite
indicator to this flat notion. And, no community would allow it self to be routed by such anarchical order of the middle ages.