" Gave up on the second chapter. This book is a long wet kiss to capitalism. It's main idea is that advanced technology and globalization have really made the world perfectly level (hence the title) and that in this brave new world the dirty poor inner-city black kid with no school, no books, no access to even basic sanitation has no less advantages than the billionaire's kid with a private tutor, endless funds for education, and a guaranteed livelihood in the millions even if all they ever amount to is a beach-loafing drunk. Friedman's uncritical view of history is inaccurate right from the start when he repeats the apocryphal claim that attributes Columbus as the prover of the roundness of Earth to his story of the Soviet collapse as a mystery, it must have eroded on its own from internal inconsistencies. Drak. "
— Charles, 1/25/2014