Serendipity35

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) by Thomas Friedman has garnered more postings and reviews than it needs already. It's a good book. I bought it last summer as one of the books for my son who was heading off to freshman year as a business major at the University of Maryland, and I read them before he left. Definitely worth a reading - or listening.

An idea beyond the book that I find very interesting is that the author has talked about the book becoming for it's "final" edition a wiki version that could be constantly updated - this being perhaps the only way to really keep it current. Figure that Friedman started the book in March 2004 when podcasting didn't really exist and a year after the book came out you could download the audio version of it on Apple's iTunes site.

We don't know how our content will be consumed in a year.

I also bought Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinkingby Malcolm Gladwell.

Click the links and you can read more about them at Amazon.com. I recommend all these titles to educators even though they seem to be business-oriented as a way to prepare for what's to come...

There's a new book I'm reading now that I'll post an entry on tomorrow.