# Actually, the world isn't flat

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2012
- Speaker: Pankaj Ghemawat
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_flat)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We're not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues that there's a delta between perception and reality in a world that's maybe not so hyperconnected after all.

## Lectures

1. [Actually, the world isn't flat](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_flat/bc26beccef47), 17 min (TED's player)