Friedman Project #1 - Your Thoughts on Thomas Friedman's "Top Ten List" - 10 Forces that Flattened the World: 1. Fall of the Berlin Wall The events of November 9, 1989, tilted the worldwide balance of power toward democracies and free mar 2. Netscape IPO The August 9, 1995, offering sparked massive investment in fiberoptic cables 3. Workflow software The rise of applications from PayPal to VPNs enabled faster closer coordination among far-flung employees 4. Open-sourcing Self-organizing communities, such as Linux, launched a collaborative revolution 5. Outsourcing Migrating business functions to India saved money and a Third World economy 6. Offshoring Contract manufacturing elevated China to economic prominence 7. Supply-chaining Robust networks of suppliers, retailers, and customers increased business efficiency 8. Insourcing Logistics giants took control of customer supply chains, helping mom-and-pop shops go global 9. Informing Power searching allowed everyone to use the Internet as a "personal supply chain of knowledge 10. Wireless Wireless technologies pumped up collaboration, making it mobile and personal Consider the following: Which of these do you think were the most relevant or vital to "making the world flat?" WHY? (assuming you had to choose one) Which of these do you think were the least relevant or vital to "making the world flat? WHY? (assuming you had to choose one) Thomas Friedman authored his book in April of 2005. What other technologies or changes in business in the past 16 years have (i What other technologies or business changes might continue to "flatten the world" in the future