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<h2 style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Gaylord Prize winner urges innovation<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span class=byline><span
style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>by M.
Scott Carter</span></span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><br>
<span class=byline>The Journal Record </span><span class=date>December 8, 2009</span><br
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>OKLAHOMA CITY – For New
York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, the world is flat – and it is
getting flatter.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Speaking Monday during a ceremony that presented him with the second Gaylord
Prize, Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, said he was
wrong in his 2004 book, The World is Flat. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>“The world has really
changed quite a bit,” he said. “And, quite honestly, I got it
wrong. The world is so much flatter than I thought. Who knew that Iceland had
turned itself into a hedge fund with glaciers, which we discovered during the
last economic crisis?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Globalization has changed the way
the world conducts everything from business to foreign policy, he told a
capacity crowd at the Sheraton Hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>“A few years ago, the first
time, it all hit me,” Friedman said. “It was more important to know
what General Motors and General Electric thought than General Powell.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>He said more and more things are
becoming commodities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>“More and more things are
becoming automated, digitized, sensitized and outsourced,” he said.
“And the only thing that remains, that cannot become a commodity, is now
more important than ever – the imagination.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Speaking to the students in his
audience, Friedman urged them to act on their ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Full
article here ::: <a href="http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recid=105045">http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recid=105045</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Shauna,
OKC</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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