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A sweeping, anecdote-driven tour of a rapidly shrinking globe that leaves you feeling both awestruck and urgently compelled to keep pace. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The World Is Flat -A Brief History OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
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The post-American world
Fareed Zakaria · 2008
A clear-eyed, panoramic view of a rapidly changing globe that replaces anxiety with pragmatic optimism.
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Hot, flat, and crowded
Thomas L. Friedman
A sweeping, anecdote-rich wake-up call that transforms climate anxiety into a blueprint for global innovation.
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The Lexus and The Olive Tree, Revised Edition
Thomas L. Friedman
A globe-trotting, analytical exploration of the friction between rapid modernization and deep-rooted cultural traditions.
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How Soccer Explains the World
Franklin Foer
A globe-trotting, intellectually restless journey that uses the world's most popular sport as a decoder ring for modern geopolitics.
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Jihad vs. McWorld
Benjamin Barber · 1995
An elegant, urgent dissection of the paradoxical forces of global consumerism and tribal fragmentation threatening modern democracy.
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
A clarifying, panoramic sweep of the modern world's most urgent anxieties, offering a steadying hand in an age of information overload.
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The Next 100 Years
George Friedman · 2008
A sweeping, provocative thought experiment that treats the future of global power as a grand, predictable chessboard.
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Future perfect
Steven Johnson
An optimistic, intellectually stimulating exploration of how networked thinking can solve society's most gridlocked problems.
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What technology wants
Kevin Kelly
A sweeping, optimistic reframing of technology as a living, evolving force deeply intertwined with human destiny.
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How we got to now
Steven Johnson
A thrilling intellectual treasure hunt that reveals the invisible threads connecting a glass of clean water to the invention of the microchip.
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
A dizzying, urgent roadmap to the exponential technological shifts about to reinvent our daily lives.
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Here comes everybody
Clay Shirky · 2008
An eye-opening, anecdote-rich exploration of how digital networks have fundamentally rewired our capacity to cooperate and organize.
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