Okumu, who is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said he is “working on the premise that this is a global problem — a global problem in a flat world.”

在伦敦大学卫生保健和热带医学院攻读博士学位的Okumu说，他是“他在这样一个前提下工作，即这是一个全球性的问题――一个世界范围内的全球性问题。”

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The "geography is dead" concept has been presented convincingly by Thomas Friedman in his bestseller, the World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first Century 1.

Thomas Friedman在他的畅销作品世界是平面的：21世纪简史1中有说服力地提出“地理界限消失了”的概念。

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I seemed to have driven into a country Mired in depression both financial and emotional: Beckett's world, not Joyce's. Even the D.J. 's Pope jokes fell flat.

我似乎驶入了一个不论是在物质还是精神上都陷入窘境的国家：这是贝克特的世界，而不是乔伊斯的。

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Will this trend of regional specialization continue or, in a flat world, will innovative technology emerge across regions and countries?

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The conventional wisdom on globalisation is that it produces a flat world in which everybody consumes the same bland products in the same bland settings: a universal airport lounge.

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At the Nasdaq OMX Group, a single technician sits in front of eight flat-panel computer screens in a quiet operations center, 51 stories above the World Trade Center construction site.

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