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The World is Flat

If Books Could Kill

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The Ten Flatteners of Globalization

The next three flatteners are also just one thing framed slightly differently Outsourcing where you move a function of your company to another country Offshoring. The ninth flattener is informing which is his term for how Google and Yahoo have sort of given us a wide Array of information at our fingertips. That's the Internet again. And then he describes what he calls the steroids All of the various technologies that he says are turbo charging the other flatteners. They include wireless technology voice over IP file sharing and More widespread use of personal digital assistance Again, basically just the Internet again So those are the flatteners if the metaphor of flatteners with steroids isn't quite working for you. Then you have the

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