Confession time .. I've always been just a tad annoyed that guys like Friedman get so much publicity for an idea that some of us figured out and/ or forecasted quite a while before he pronounced that *the world is flat*. But hey .. he wrote a book and I didn't .. all I've put together is a web site. But I do think that the impacts of being wired and interconnected does lead to some flattenings .. and I think that the implications are greater than just flattening. The governments and legislators are doing their best to erect barriers and keep things more or less status quo, many corporations are ignoring the possibilities for flexibility, responsiveness and innovation, our individual and small group behaviours are changing, economic logics are changing ... I could go on but probably shouldn't ;-)