It's collaboration of ideas with other nations are beginning to make leaps and bounds in the game of global economics. By the analysis of the two authors books, the reader can begin to understand how two scholars can have different viewpoints on competition within the global society.
While reading The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, it is imperative to first understand his whole metaphor of what a flat world is. As Friedman recounted his voyage to Bangalore, India, he tells the reader of how he was exposed to convergence first hand in the American and Indian labor force culture. This whole metaphor of a flat world in a sense was a representation of the continuing steps made towards globalizing society which came to him while he was in a conference room in Infosys Technologies Limited in India. "The playing field is being leveled" said the CEO Nandan Nilekani, which in turn led Friedman to view the economic front of the world as an environment of equal opportunities"(Friedman, 7). Friedman's curiosity was piqued; this new challenge to American dominance lead him on a quest to discover the prevalence of outsourcing and information technology because of the high levels of it that already existed in India as well as other Asian countries.
The "ten major political events, innovations, and companies" are the starting point for Friedman's argument (Friedman,49). These are the events that helped in turn to flatten the world (Friedman,50). As Friedman discusses the ancestry of the global economic power in chronological order he puts an emphasis on the progressive technological forces in this continuously developing world. The list of flatteners begins with the Berlin wall falling in 1989(Friedman, 51). Friedman identified this historical event as a major player in the ever tipping scale of supremacy "across the world toward those advocating democratic[and] free market oriented governance and away from those advocating authoritarian" (Friedman 52).