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This blog is for Watauga High School students taking the Scientific and Technical Visualization class. We are reading and discussing Thomas Friendman's book "The World is Flat". Watauga High School is not responsible for the content of any student entry or any links that might be added by students.
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In this part Friedman talks about the Cold War in comparison with today. One is that meeting the challenges of flatism requirers as comprehensive, energetic, and focused a response as did meeting the challenge of communism. He talks about leadership, and how Kennedy understood the competition with the Soviets unlike Bush. Instead of competing with the Chinese we are fighting for oil.
In this reading Freidman compares the Cold War to our present time. Then we were in a nuclear arms race, now we are competing in the science and technology field, except we aren't really racing, we are just letting the Chinese get ahead of us.
Friedman is comparing what was happening during the cold war with what is happening today. Then the US and Soviet Union were competing in science and mathemetical fields whether it being with space or nuclear weapons. Now he has compared us to china with the new flattening world. It may seem as if we are racing china but in reality we are not we are not competing with them at all we have simply just gotten lazy and are letting them get ahead.
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