The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century

While I was sleeping

The ten forces that flattened the world

The triple convergence

The great sorting out

America and free trade

The untouchables

The right stuff

The quiet crisis

This is not a test

The Virgin of Guadalupe

How companies cope

The unflat world

Globalization of the local

The Dell theory of conflict prevention

11/9 versus 9/11.

Pt. [1]: How the world became flat. While I was sleeping

The ten forces that flattened the world: 11/9/89 (when the walls came down and the windows went up) ; 8/9/95 (when Netscape went public) ; Work flow software (let's do lunch: have your application talk to my application) ; Open-sourcing (self-organizing collaborative communities) ; Outsourcing (Y2K) ; Offshoring (when China joined the WTO) ; Supply-chaining (Wal-Mart) ; Insourcing (UPS) ; In-forming (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Web Search) ; The steroids (digital, mobile, personal, and virtual)

The triple convergence

The great sorting-out.

Pt. [2]: America and the flat world. America and free trade (is Ricardo still right?)

The untouchables

The quiet crisis

This is not a test.

Pt. [3] Developing countries and the flat world. The virgin of Guadalupe.

Pt. [4] Companies and the flat world. How companies cope.

Pt. [5] Geopolitics and the flat world. The unflat world

The Dell theory of conflict prevention.

Conclusion. Imagination: 11/9 versus 9/11.