The Effects Of Flattening In The World

Though the world is discovered to be round physically, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the world is round in the technology and business aspect. In fact, there are many reasons that prove the world is indeed getting flatter and flatter as time goes on; as more countries gain access to the internet, resources, and therefore knowledge, anyone from anywhere on the world is now gaining the ability to compete with the top leading nations such as the United States. As information and technology expand globally, the economy will be completely “flattened” in the future. According to Friedman, flattening is the causes and effects of globalization. Examples of flattening include various countries learning, inventing and cooperating with each

In the book, Friedman states that there were ten incidents that converged to create the
“flattened world” (Friedman, 2005). The first event was in November of 1989, which was when the
Berlin Wall that split Germany into two different lands was destroyed. This mainly symbolized freedom between all people, allowing others to get involved with different people of different cultures, which is a huge part of the business world today (Friedman, 2005). The

Without Globalization 3.0, there wouldn’t be as much competition in business making poor prices, quality, etc. There also wouldn’t be as much importing and exporting going on due to the lack of communication between different nations, and therefore there wouldn’t be much flattening taking place. But some nations still don’t have access to the internet to make some of these opportunities possible.
As Evelyn Rusli says in an article called “Tech Firms Discover Web Isn’t World-Wide”, social barriers, poverty, lack of motivation, illiteracy, and lack of digital knowledge are keeping people off of the internet (Rusli, 2015). Rusli (2015) says that only 16% of the people in Indonesia use the internet, and there are even expectations in a few years that show there will still be around 4 billion people off of the internet. This raises some question about how flat the world really got looking at Friedman’s book and comparing it to Rusli’s article.
Friedman explains that the playing field is becoming level for many different