THE WORLD IS FLAT
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Chapter One
While I Was Sleeping
Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians, and princes who love and promote the holy
Christian faith, and are enemies of the doctrine of Mahomet, and of all idolatry and heresy,
determined to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the above-mentioned countries of India,
to see the said princes, people, and territories, and to learn their disposition and the proper
method of converting them to our holy faith; and furthermore directed that I should not
proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction
we have hitherto no certain evidence that anyone has gone.
-Entry from the journal of Christopher Columbus on his voyage of 1492
No one ever gave me directions like this on a golf course before: "Aim at either Microsoft or IBM." I was
standing on the first tee at the KGA Golf Club in downtown Bangalore, in southern India, when my playing
partner pointed at two shiny ... read full excerpt from: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ebook
