作为纽约时报的专栏作家,弗里德曼过去就写了大量关于全球化的文章。有一次,我在从芬兰回来的飞机上还看到一部他给 Discovery 拍的一部有关印度外包的纪录片,很有意思。《世界是平坦的》这本书刚一出版我就看到了一些评论,当时美国正在讨论外包,我认为它抓住了一个很重要的话题。这本书非常畅销,在美国机场都能看到, 大连市市长夏德仁送给我几本——弗里德曼访问了大连软件园并在书中提到了他。里面好多人物我都很熟悉,大前研一是我的好朋友, Infosys 和我们有合作,它讲的就是我们身边的故事。事实上,全球化每天都在发生,但是没有人像弗里德曼这样把分散孤立的事情出色地串起来,而且用了一个让人感觉奇怪的题目总结了世界的变化。这本书我看了三天,我觉得最精彩的是前半部分。他用一个个有趣的故事, 从柏林墙倒塌到互联网,从工作流程到外包, As a New York Times columnist, Friedman used to write a lot about globalization. Once upon a time, I also saw on the plane returning from Finland that it was interesting to see a documentary film about outsourcing to India which he gave Discovery. “The world is flat.” I just saw a few comments when the book was first published, when the United States was discussing outsourcing and I think it captured a very important topic. This book is very popular and can be seen at U.S. airports. Dalian Mayor Xia Deren gave me a few copies - Friedman visited Dalian Software Park and mentioned him in the book. Inside a lot of people I am familiar with, big research is my first friend, Infosys and we have cooperation, it is about our story. In fact, globalization takes place every day, but no one has done a good job of stripping scattered isolated things like Friedman, and has used a strange subject to sum up the changes in the world. I read this book for three days, I think the most exciting is the first half. He used one interesting story, from the Berlin Wall collapsed to the Internet, from the workflow to outsourcing,