MIT Milestone Celebration | Keynote Address

[sap4365]

if you have any doubt about america is in downward spiral turn. here are two hints to convince you that it's a fact: (1) go through below comments made by american students who are apparently been made to listen to this awesome, jaw-dropping speech as part of their lecture course. watch how they react to this crystal clear warning made by Mr. Friedman about where their country is heading to. (2) Note that second rank for viewer country of origin belongs to chian and india.

[schen820]

This is the one of the most awful speakers I have ever heard. It makes the audience feel like he's reading a prerehearsed lecture off a teleprompter. No humor, complete lack of audience interaction or even acknowledgement, and extremely over-the-top verbose. It's a shame because the content of his speech is phenomenal.

[NormanJustinlt679]

geil wohne in leipzig

[Tbone16ty5]

fuck this essay

[megabrowniepoints]

Thanks a lot penglish... i now hate tom friedman even more then i already did!!!

[bag531]

I HATE TOM FRIEDMAN

[woahineedhelp]

Fuck you Friedman, now I have an essay on this shit. 4 Pages due thursday. Yep two days? Still love you Penglish

[agapitoflores001]

Nice talk from the speaker..Thumbs up!

[chrisrugh17]

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[TheAndyBatch]

This guy came to University of Alabama last night. He is very inspiring.

[Scyerf]

if you are watching this for Mr.E 's marketing class, thumb this up.

[whyld2171]

28:29 =  I like the Southwest airlines story.

[fr8542]

idealist son of a gun, ain't he.

[KaileKia]

doug rushkoff is cooler than this guy.

[VincentMng]

i am upto 3:00

[tzambaman]

i study in technical university of athens (NTUA)...but over here we have heard so much about mit that we all dying to have a chance to come over there

[gayasinsun]

This is a great lecture. You could know it is if you read the book.

[knightpremier]

Stupid shit MIT, you have Noam Chomsky in your faculty, and you invite stupid Friedman instead?

[wrineha2]

Yea because Chomskyan linguistics and the propaganda model that he proposed with Herman have only stood the test of time.

You need to go to grad school because you don't know shit. Do these big words look scary? Linguistics? Propaganda? Ohh my!

[maiyahi1]

very interesting idea. but we live in a political world where you can not force your ideas on a person. so even if we change our leader to be more eco friendly if our lifestyle don't change we would not follow the laws he passes down. and like you said the world is flat but growing at a uncontrollable rate small towns soon become large metropolises. its a flat world with walls separating us from them until we all believe to become eco friendly changing one leader would do us no good.

[bucles2000]

The world is not flat,is brutal.

[ronnaneil]

Our future economy and our competitive position in the world will depend on inexpensive and abundant energy. Energy is the basis of all of the world's economies. The country that has the lowest cost of clean energy will have a significant leg up in the future world economy.The source of energy for most of the economies in the world today is oil,coal and natural gas. These are are purchased on a worldwide market. We all pay the going rate we all have the same basic cost of energy.

[storagecasa]

Love Friedman, especially on the Middle East. But a country pays its bills with taxes, Tbills, and TARIFFS. And we are 9 trillion in debt.

[lb1915]

In the panel discussion portion of this conference, the panelist from India related that their country had earmarked $65 Billion to build colleges during the next five years. That's about what we're paying for the Iraq war.

Take a look at Craig Barrett's (Chairman of Intel) discussion of higher education in the U.S. and the rest of the world from this year's Aspen Idea Conference. Fifty percent of Intel patents come from Asia now as opposed to none only ten years ago.

[GorterPoss]

He's too into the word "flat." pfft.

[85nongcun26]

Terrific!

[jgslauen]

Brilliant! Insightful, and his meta-thesis is very well articulated, makes perfect sense. This IS the largest development to the human race, bar nothing else at all.

[RoyalAveD]

interesting material...yes an eye opener of globalization in the 21th century.. i recommend the his books....

[clearmenser]

So awesome! Gobstopping reality and optimism.

[martijm7]

This video is well worth watching - don't give up on it too early, the video will really pick up and make you realize how flat the world truly is. Enjoy

[vivekvmenon]

this speech and his book is a real eye-opener

[Golfmackan]

This is the kind of person who should rule the United States of America. Not an idiot from Texas.

[ks1212]

This is one of the best keynotes I have ever heard. I didn't know who Thomas Friedman was before this, but I'm going to google him and see what else he has to say. Smart guy! I heard the Jobs one that he referred to and that was worth listening to also.