Global Competition: How We Can Win

Abstract: 6th Annual Berkeley in Silicon Valley Symposium

In his recent best selling book, _The World is Flat: A Brief
History of the Twenty-first Century_, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Thomas Friedman writes that the lowering of trade and political
barriers and profound technological advances in global connectivity
have enabled a "flat world" where it is possible to do business or
almost anything else instantaneously and with billions of people.
According to Dean Richard Newton, it is perhaps ironic that this
global "flattening" has actually made local regions, like Silicon
Valley and the Bay Area, even more important. In many ways, Silicon
Valley can be seen as a new and emerging "corporation" in its own
right, with all of us who live and work here as its employees
creating a "bump" on Friedman's flat world.

This event took place on April 11, 2006 in the Computer History
Museum, Mountain View, Ca.

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