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Flatteners
The Triple Convergence
America and Free Trade
Untouchables
Quiet Crisis
100
The rise of apps from Paypal to VPNs enabling faster, closer coordination among far-flung employees.
What is work flow software?
100
Wealth and Power will increasing accrue to those countries, companies, and individuals, universities and groups that have the right Infrastructure, the education to get more people innovating and this.
What is the Governance to get the most out of this new platform?
100
Free Trade and upgrading every this for every American will enable Americans to compete for Jobs in a Flat World
What is Education?
100
Able to operate in, mobilize, inspire, and manage a multidimensional and multicultural workforce.
Who is a Collaborator?
100
The proportional emphasis on science and engineering is greater in other nations.
What is the Numbers Gap?
200
Self-organizing communities launched a collaborative revolution.
What is Open-sourcing?
200
The convergence of the 10 flattners, and particularly the combination of the PC, microprocessor, the internet and fiber optics created this.
What is Globalization 3.0
200
This is the main flaw of the Lump of Labor theory.
What is the assumption that everything that is going to be invented has been?
200
Putting disparate and unusual things together.
Who is a Synthesizer?
200
When jobs are sent abroad, companies not only save 75% on wages, but they get a 100% increase in productivity.
What is the Ambition Gap?
300
Robust network of suppliers, retailers, and customers increase business efficiency.
What is Supply-chaining?
300
The IMF, G8, World Bank and the WTO will give way to this group who will drive Globalization.
Who are individuals?
300
According to “The World is Flat” America will do fine in a flat world with free trade as they are able to produce these.
What are Idea Based Goods?
300
Optimizing the interface between people and machines.
Who is a Leverager?
300
Federal funding for research in physical and mathematical science and engineering as a share of GDP, actually declined by 37% from 1970 to 2004.
What is Funding Gap?
400
Migrating business functions to India saved money and a 3rd world economy.
What is Outsourcing?
400
This drove Globalization into hypermode.
What is the dot.com bust?
400
Friedman says we always need to remember that Indians and Chinese are racing Americans to this destination and that is a good thing.
What is the top?
400
Ability to explain complex concepts with simplicity.
Who is an Explainer?
400
The U.S. is not educating, or even interesting, enough of our own young people in math, science and engineering.
What is the Education Gap?
500
Logistics giants took control of customer supply chains, helping mom-and-pop shops go global.
What is Insourcing?
500
Fiber Optic Cable, the Internet and work flow software removed many of the barriers that prevented this.
What is Collaboration?
500
In the Flat world we hope he is right, as he developed the free-trade theory.
Who is David Ricardo?
500
Understand global infrastructure and adapt local needs and demands.
Who is a Localizer?
500
Most U.S. homes can access only ‘basic’ broadband, amongst the slowest, most expensive, and the least reliable in the developed world.
What is the Infrastructure Gap?