In America, life is good or, for lack of a better word, ignorant. Someone once said that ignorance is bliss, which is sometimes true because sometimes it's better not to know. However, in this case, we have been in the dark for too long. It's better to know and you have to wake up. Imagine you are driving your car on a highway and you accidentally fall asleep. You no longer have any control over your car. It may stay straight and continue moving down the road, but it may not. If you wake up, you realize you were missing because the landscape around you is now different, and if you don't, you will continue until you crash. This has been America for a few years now; we have slept at the wheel, in our own worlds, blissfully unaware of the life happening around us. We need to wake up before we crash, because just like a car, the crash stops you and will damage your car, maybe even beyond repair, and could even kill you. Thomas Friedman discusses his concerns about globalization and the rapid flattening of the world. in his book “The World is Flat”. He begins his journey when, during a trip to Bangalore, he realizes that he is no longer in Kansas. All around him are advertisements for American companies like Pizza Hut and HP while he plays golf. He also meets Indian workers who work for American companies (outsourcing at its finest). They also adopted American accents and names. Finally, his final reality check comes when he visits Infosys Technologies and sees their huge conference room with their millions of screens that allows them to talk to people from all over the world, like their producers, suppliers and manufacturers, at the same time via satellite and teleconferencing technology. On the way out, the head of this giant company tells Friedman that the playing field is being leveled, and the more Friedman thinks about it, the more he realizes that he's right. Friedman was asleep at the wheel, just like the rest of America. However, once he woke up and realized that damage had been done, he was eager to make up for lost time. According to Friedman, we have gone through three major forms of globalization, and I suppose in his lack of creativity he decided to call them 1.