The World Is Flat The First 5 Forces

Amna Al Saadi 10B ~ IT

Introduction

In this chapter Thomas Friedman introduces the ten factors that is leading to globalization and flattening the world.

Factor 1: Collapse of Berlin Wall

The wall was constructed by the Russians in 1961 to isolate West Berlin that was at that time occupied by the French, American, and British. It stood until 1989. Thomas Friedman included this in the ten forces that flattened the world because with the fall of the Berlin wall, communism also fell.

Factor 2: Netscape

Netscape is a US computer services company, best know for its web browser. It was one of the first web browsers. Netscape is one of the factors that led to flattening the world, as Thomas Friedman says, because broadened the audience that uses the internet to

everyone that from five-years-old to eighty-five-years-old.

Force 3: Work Flow Software

Work flow software always human to interact through machines. It always human to collaborate with each other while they are in different work places. It is also used to move documents through a user-defined routing path to arrive at another work place. It also always the receiver to modify the document if needed. It was one of the forces because it was thought of as a global platform for collaboration.

Force 4: Uploading

Uploading is the transmission of a file from one system to another. Uploading can also include putting information on the web at places such as Wikipedia, open source software and blogs. Thomas Friedman says that uploading allowed people to be heard and therefore it can be the most distractive force.

Force 5: Outsourcing Outsourcing is when having different companies working together on different parts of a company’s project. That is because different companies can do this job by costing less money or to save up time and energy. For example many factories are oversee since the labor price is lower than in the company’s country. Thomas Friedman argues that this has split the work between different services and manufacturers, making that part more effective and cheaper.