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An energetic guide for a 21st-century journey

By Andrew Hill

Published: November 29 2005 02:00 | Last updated: November 29 2005 02:00

Thomas Friedman has a vision for the final edition of The World is Flat: anybody will be able to update it.

"It's been suggested to me that we actually turn the book into an open-source product. Just put it up on the web like Wikipedia [the collaborative online encyclopedia] and let people add to it," says the New York Times columnist, who is working on the second edition of his bestseller on ­globalisation.

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