Photo: #The cover of the revised and expanded edition of "The World is Flat," or as its author Thomas Friedman calls it, the "2.0" version of the book.
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The cover of the revised and expanded edition of "The World is Flat," or as its author Thomas Friedman calls it, the "2.0" version of the book. (Image from book cover)

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Finding work on the flat Earth

Broadcast: Midday, 06/13/2006, 11:06 a.m.

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The conclusions Thomas Friedman draws in "The World is Flat" might alarm many Americans: You are not just competing for jobs with each other anymore. You're competing with the whole world. Friedman says Americans are right to be alarmed, but he says there will be jobs for them in the flat world.

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