Traveling With Tom Friedman

In this op-ed Tom Friedman tells the story of his trip to Wall Street and to the Silicon Valley. Wall Street is "old school" it no longer does anything more worthwhile than what bookies do when they take bets. Silicon Valley is the future of America according to Friedman. He repeats the claims made by those engaged in social networking and cloud computing. These technologies will provide the framework that will empower everyone, and enable us all to become entrepreneurs. He doesn't mention this, but that is the way America can embrace globalization and provide jobs for everyone. He has been selling that vision in his old books and it is repeated in a new book that is being released. We just need to change the education system and turn everyone into technical giants who can compete with the rest of the world in the technology enabled economy of the future. I can't wait to read about what Friedman has learned on his next trip.