Many readers contemplated implications of the globalized, technology-driven "flat world" that Thomas L. Friedman delineated.
The United States, for example, has lost its once-large lead in producing college graduates, and education remains the most successful jobs strategy in a globalized, technology-heavy economy.
He was also building a broader argument that the nation needs to shift away from the focus on shrinking the government that has dominated politics for the past several years and toward a modestly more activist agenda aimed at tackling persistent inequality and the dislocating forces of a globalized, technology-driven economy.
Ms. Rivlin said policy makers had a responsibility to address the reality that "the bottom of the income distribution has not benefited from much of anything" when it comes to the globalized, technology-driven economy, and that income disparities were a potentially destructive economic force.
Swahili and Yoruba, for example, are among the local languages being preserved by the spread of globalized technologies.
In a globalized, technology-driven society, systemic change no longer comes from one organization, one government, or one charismatic individual.
We're in such a globalized, technologically driven world.
The world is becoming increasingly globalized and technology is rendering low-skill labor industries obsolete.
But in today's globalized and technology-driven economy, workers have little bargaining power, and the prices of many products, such as electronics, have a tendency to fall rather than rise.
The push to expand and the 1994 law is the latest example of a dilemma over how to balance Internet freedom with security needs in an era of rapidly evolving -- and globalized -- technology.
You can't help but be impressed by how globalized the oppression-technology industry has become.
