“But, what if I am just an average accountant? I went to a state university. I had B+ average. Eventually I got my CPA. I work in a big accounting firm, doing a lot of standard work. I rarely meet with clients. They keep in in the back. But it is a decent living and the firm is basically happy with me. What is going to happen to me in this system?”
” We must be honest about it. We are in the middle of a big technological change, and when you live in a society that is cutting edge of that change, it is hard to predict. It’s easy to predict for someone who living in India In ten years we are going to be doing a lot of stuff that is been done in America today. We can predict our future. But we are behind you. You are defining the future. America is always on the edge of the next creative wave….So it is difficult to look into the eyes of that accountant and say this is what is going to be. We should not trivialize that. We must deal with it and talk about it honestly….Any activity where we can digitize and decompose the value chain, and move the work around. Some people will say, ‘Yes, but you can’t serve me a steak.’ True, but I can take the reservation for your table sitting anywhere in the world, if the restaurant does not have an operator. We can say, ‘Yes, Mr. Friedman, we can give you a table by the window.’ In other words, there are parts of the whole dining-out experience that we can decompose and outsource. If you go back and read the basic economic textbooks, they will tell you: ‘Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close to exporting a haircut, the appointment part. What kind of haircut do you want? Which barber do you want? All those things can and will be done by a call center far away”
from The World is Flat, The Globalized World in The Twenty-First Century
We need to do more than common things in order to survive in the globalization. Globalization brings the world into the next higher step of network and communication. We have to be advance in information and technology to keep our self in the pace of globalization. Once we stop, the others will run and take what-could-have-be-ours, then we lost one second chance to decide if we will be a rich or poor man, a happy or depressed man. Anyway, there are chances and opportunities which come along with the problems and the risks. We just have to be prepared.
What a globalized world…….
