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Thursday, March 27. 2008

The World is NOT Flat When it Comes to Talent, Innovation and Creativity

Richard Florida's new book is called Who’s Your City and argues essentially that. As Tracy Certo puts it at Metromedia: "the creative economy is making where you live the most important decision of your life." Or, in other words, geography does matter, though it's hard for me at least to tease cause from effect. The article offers an interview with the author and a YouTube clip of him on the Colbert Report.

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So geography matters...what a surprise! Should we be surprised that a superficial booster of the status quo like Tom Friedman thinks otherwise?

The fantasy of eliminating geography as a factor in human affairs is like other sci-fi fantasies of solving social problems by settling mars, or having a nuclear power plant in every basement.
#1 lichanos (Link) on 2008-03-28 09:32 (Reply)

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