On the morning of October 27, Thomas Friedman gave a keynote address at the United Nations in which he outlined the key themes of his next book, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century."

It is liable to make you think, "I could have written that."

On the morning of October 27, Thomas Friedman gave a keynote address at the United Nations in which he outlined the key themes of his next book, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century."

It is liable to make you think, "I could have written that." But Friedman regularly drips with clue, his audience is a big one, and it can't be a bad thing.

] Asked whether helping sub-Saharan African countries gain
] a bigger share of the globalization pie was in the best
] interests of the West, he said there was indeed an
] overriding interest on the part of the West despite the
] expected shift of jobs from the West to those developing
] markets.  The outsourcing of jobs from the United States
] to India had resulted in a near-doubling of bilateral
] United States-India trade, contributing to economic
] growth.