Whoa, what could that title mean.  I don’t know.  wait, i’m the one that’s supposed to know.  tee hee.

The World is Flat.  read it.
I think it’s really an interesting and well written book.  I’m so not finished with it yet, but  love it.  From the educational history to the great commentary on where the world is headed in the technological fields.  fascinating.

It’s really interesting to me.  On one hand we have the killing of american cities (which is slowly being rectified as people are ever so slowly waking up.  but they’re trying to solve the symptoms)  And we have poorly designed zoning laws and all different social causes and consequences of our cities,the amount of land we have (meaning how americans use it) and so much more.
on the other hand we have a society that is dissillusioned.  (this may be around the world, i don’t know)  They think that technology is the solution to all our problems.  we’ll just make something new.  something better.  but sometimes technology is the problem.  And we still think we are the top dog by far with no challengers, when it comes to countries.  We were a strong, ambitious force to be reckoned with, whether in the military, economy, innovations etc.

But look out americans.  China, India, Russia and Asia are kickin’ our ass speed wise and will catch us and fly by.  We’re loosing steam.  Our ambition is slowly thinning out, having a sense of direction is lost on my generation.  Purpose, drive, passion, determination, I don’t think we know what it means and what the quality of a well done job means.  these are very general statements and there are a lot of people out there that are all these things.  But there’s a sense of being lost I feel in my generation.  We grew up in suburbia.  we grew up with televison.  we grew up in our private little familys with our cul-di-sac friends, and our prefectly dysfunctional families.  Our parents did the best they could.  How were they to know.

How many engineers do we have entering the employment field?  How many scientists are out there graduating college?  According to Friedman (The author), not enough.  JFK helped do a huge inspirational push back in the day of fear and survival.  (the cold war)  We’ve got nothing to fight for, half of americans don’t believe in the war going on, we’re addicted to petrolium by the lifestyle we’ve built over the last 50 years and technology alone will not save us.  we need to create the technology, shape the world, get onto the playing field with the rest of the world.

Wake up and start changing the world.  If only it didn’t seem so daunting.  Maybe i’m writing about me and the people around me.  If i had enough left brain, drive and sticky-ness, I may have done the engineer path.  but such is life.  I’m an artist with a mind.  Hear me roar.  I just feel that something has to be done.  There’s little pockets all over the place of sucess.  My word to you, “keep it up, keep kickin’ ass”