Short image summary of the 10 Flatteners. Read further into the investgation to get more deapth on each flattener.

1. The Ten Flatteners Flat = Connected What has ‘flattened’ our world?

2. #1: Collapse of the Berlin Wall (11/9/89)“Start of the revolution” – allowed individuals to use their own personal computers, giving them freedom to connect again with the world, to find happiness 

3. #2: Netscape-“Broadened the audience”

4. #3: Workflow Software- or the ability for machines to talk to machines with no help from humans’

5. #4: Open Source- Collaborating and sharing work!

7. #6. Offshoring

9. #8: Insouring

10. #9: In-forming

11. #10: The Steroids