The World is Flat

I felt that the lecture by Thomas Friedman was very engaging, especially since he's a writer for the New York Times. I didn't expect it to grab my attention as quickly or as much as it actually did. I found out a bunch of crazy things that I never would've thought twice about. One of which is that the United States Postal Services messes around with computers. I didn't think that their knowledge went beyond any machine that sorted mail, or as I like to put it, destroys your mail. The main idea in this lecture is that the technological world is forever changing-- and faster than you know.

It's kind of a scary thought to imagine that our generation work force has quadrupled. That really makes it come down to the bone for who gets the job, or even a job. I think that section might have gotten a lot of attention from current college students and graduates because not only are they competing with the entire United States for a job, but they're also competing with everyone on the globe that has been fortunate enough to have the same amount and quality of education. That means that everyone has to step up their game or they won't make it in these crazy times. This wasn't really something that I'd thought very much about being a biology major. My general way of thinking is that there are so many disciplines within that category and so much that has yet to be studied and discovered that I should have no problem finding my niche. I usually fail to take into account the other developed countries that students and researchers study in, the ones that have better research on forbidden things like stem cells. Reality is now creeping up on me thanks to Thomas Friedman.