The World is Flat.

        Throughout this video I learned a lot. There were many concepts expressed in Thomas Freedman's speech, but the one I found the most interesting is that America won't always be number one. He talked about how that more countries are getting better educated and specialized in more than one subjects. He created an iron rule for business which was whatever can be done will be done. So he is pushing american engineers and others to reach for their full potential, so that America can stay on top as number one. Individual imagination will be the key to success for whichever country becomes number one.

         Freedman talks about how whoever finds the first clean safe energy source will be the next number one in this world. He stresses the importance of creativity and how America isn't in fact ahead of everyone and countries are catching up. He talks about how Americans should be studying more topics because "The New York Times needs engineers" and people who can think outside of the box are needed everywhere because imagination is the key to success for each country and if you don't think of it someone else will. That is why students are studying more than one subject and getting backgrounds in different subjects. They encourage students now to go study more than one subject that interests them to better suit them to any work environment.

          I have lots of questions for the how the flat classroom project will work. I wonder which countries will the students be from and how well they will speak English. I wonder how the time zone barrier will work between us. I have some concerns with what they might think about America and whether or not they will be biased against us at first. But after getting to know them I would want to know if they still think the same about America.