Title:
Science in a Flat World
Speaker:
Neal Lane
Subject:
communication
Area:
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Type of school:
laboratory
School name:
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Country:
United States
Course language:
English
Course media:
Video
Course duration:
Contributor:
pbp
Comments:
Neal Lane: Science in a Flat World (1 hr, 9 min.)
Lane discusses the changes that have taken place in the world since World War II that have made it “flatter,” referring to Thomas L. Friedman’s book, The World is Flat. Friedman’s main premise is that inexpensive telecommunications is bringing about unhampered international competition, the demise of economic stability, and a trend toward outsourcing services, such as computer programming, engineering and science research.
September 12, 2006