Before we dive headfirst into the giant pool that is globalization, let's dissect one of the defining books about globalization in the past 10 years, "The World if Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.” A few years ago, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Thomas L. Friedman, wrote a best-selling book called "The World if Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.” Friedman starts off the book with a nice little twist. He writes that what Columbus accidentally discovered, in 1492, was that the world was round. After a business trip to India, Thomas Friedman got home and told his wife, “Honey, I’ve discovered accidentally that the world if flat.” What do you think he meant by this?