What has the information age brought about? Read "the world is equal".

Among the countless books related to globalization built in major book stores, "The world is equal" (The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the twenty-first century) Not just " Another copy " Such a book. In the past year, it was included by Bill · Business leaders, including gates, have been repeatedly recommended by all MBA Students talk. 2005 In the Western commercial society of the Year, "The World Is Flat" is a cultural event similar to "The promise" or a super girl created in China, regardless of its internal nature, it is unavoidable. " Event " .

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The world is equal. This means that the threshold is lowered and barriers are eliminated. The starting point is the same for everyone. In fact, the globalization 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 mentioned by Friedman are the globalization of material, energy, and information. At present, the information age has eliminated information barriers for us, "everyone is equal in front of information ".

In the second law of thermodynamic, it describes the consequences of "convergence": disorder and chaos, and the death of the system. However, convergence of material, energy, and information clearly promotes economic development. So what is the decisive motive force at this time? I think it is knowledge and innovation. The knowledge density is not average, and the knowledge content is not similar. Or, knowledge in different fields is distributed in different places in the world at different density, which determines the social division of labor. That is to say, after information convergence, the world economy will become a knowledge-driven economy.