In this chapter, Friedman talks about ten forces that have effects on the process of flattening the world and becomes equivalent which is happening right now. The first three flatteners:
1- Collapse of the Berlin Wall (11/9/89): the wall collapsed which led to the collapse of communism and raise of freedom. At the same time, the technology of computers, communications, and Windows developed and that helped connecting the world.
2- Netscape (8/9/95): went Netscape went public, everyone is can access to it no matter how old you. In addition, people can share music, films, pictures, and documents.
3- Workflow software: software that is made to connect computers together, and by doing that, people will be able to collaborate and share work together.
In my opinion, I agree with Friedman on the idea of the flatteners. Also, the first three flatteners are working together to establish the foundation for the global collaboration between individuals and corporations. For example, when the Internet became a trend in Kurdistan at the beginning of the millennia, people could get help from other people. Also, those three forces are sequential. Therefore, if any of them were happened, the next one weren’t happened too.
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