Goodnight Globe: A Bedtime Story from Thomas Friedman (Election) (On Technological Advancement and Society) - The American Conservative

Goodnight Globe: A Bedtime Story from Thomas Friedman (Election) (On Technological Advancement and Society)

By The American Conservative

  • Release Date: 2010-03-01
  • Genre: Politics & Current Events

Description

WHILE STOPPING OVER AT the Kaliningrad airport on my way to Antibes from Almaty, I was recently asked a most remarkable question by Evgeny Malchik, executive vice president and crew chief of the McDonald's in Terminal 5. "Do you want fries with that?" It took a while for the true significance of this question to sink in. Bo you want fries with that? In a plug and play world, soon we'll all be having fries. Either that, or the fries will be having us.