The Flattening World

I sincerely despise the title of Tom Friedman's new book. I also hate the fact that he repeats it 4,396 times in his book, but this story about Wi-Fi being used to hook up rural Indians to the net is an example of what he is talking about. It is fascinating that developing nations could leapfrog us in the communications revolution since they are skipping bulky 20th century infrastructure investments and going straight to the digital/wireless age. We are so dependent and dare I say comfortable with in our little wired world that going wireless is not a priority.