The World Is Flat

is Thomas L. Friedman's account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before-creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place.

Watch the author lecture on this book at MIT. It's some very amazing, eye-opening stuff.

I just bought the book.