I think that this is a very important piece of information to read. It gives you three different view points of where he is coming from. Also he gives many examples to follow up on his opinions. First Friedman starts to try and explain the difference between the world now and how it was before the 1980’s. He refers to the earlier world as “the cold war system” and now as “globalization”. A good example that Friedman uses is in the cold war system was based on the one word wall or the Berlin Wall. This was basically saying our world was divided up. Now Friedman say the world today is based on one word web or the internet. An example that he uses to get this across is that someone in another country can be as close to you as someone in the next dorm-room. A second balances that Friedman talks about is Supermarkets, and the Electric Herd. The Electric Herd is just millionaires that have nothing else to do with their money besides to invest it into these “Supermarkets or global markets” all over the world. I think that these can have a big influence in our world, because they don’t kill people, but they can have a big affect on our economy. The third balance that Freidman refers to is “super-empowered individuals”. He gives the example about Bin Laden and the war he declared on the United States. He got one country to fire seventy-five missiles that cost one million dollars a piece at one man.
