I assume you're referring to his
Earth is Flat book, where Friedman offered readers the innovative, unprecedented insight that thanks to the internet and other forms of mass communication, the whole world is now interconnected. That's right, we sure needed Thomas Friedman to point that out to us. His next best-seller will no doubt reveal other novel and profound insights to us, such as "water is wet" and "sugar is sweet."
I don't know who's the bigger fool, Friedman himself, or those who take him seriously as a writer and thinker.