9/11. Do you know where you were when you heard about the attacks? I remember it was junior year in high school and I was in my government class. The teacher got a call on her phone to turn on the TV. After she turned it on we saw a video of the World Trade Center with a fire on one of the top levels. Me and my classmates didn’t know what was going on. It was a very scary.In the final chapter of the book, Friedman reminded us that the new flat world is being used for good (to help improve quality of life and grow the economy), but also sometimes for evil (terrorism). It's important for us to fight the people that are using "the flatteners" for evil.
The Berlin Wall crumbled on 11/9/89 which signaled the start of a new revolution of freedom and when technology began to go into hyperdrive. However, when Bin Laden orchestrated the attack on 9/11/01 it was almost a setback for the "flattening" of the world. Everyone was afraid and realized that maybe we were "flatenning" too much and technology was now available to everyone.
I feel that with anything, some people are going to be use it for good and some for evil. However, I don't think that should make us want to slow down on innovation or technology. Maybe just be cautious.
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I remember it was my senior year of high school and I just had gotten out on OJT at around 10:30am. I heard them talking about it on my favorite radio station and thought it was a joke. But once I got home I saw it on the news and all my friends were calling me. I think we found out how vulnerable America was, and that it woke us up. I don't believe this slowed us down one bit. We realized the world was flattening and that it was time for us to step forward.The terrorist are using this new technology against us though. They are winning the war of propaganda in Iraq, and turning the Arab-Muslim nation against us. You are right when you said we need to be cautious.
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