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WITHIN the past decade, the snowballing computer revolution - the new "information age" made possible by rapid growth of the Internet, fax machines, e-mail and the like - has altered the world's economy. Although computers have wiped out many former clerical jobs, they also enable smart, educated people almost anywhere on the planet to create employment and income for themselves online.
That's the message of a new book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, by New York Times writer Thomas L. Friedman. In an excerpt in the paper's magazine, Friedman cited the notion of a level playing field and says high-tech breakthroughs are creating a flat world with equal opportunities everywhere.See the full content of this document
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Deep Change: ; West Virginia Opportunity
"Technology and geo-economics [are] fundamentally reshaping our lives - much, much more quickly than many people realize," he wrote. He...
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