Visualising Friedman’s Flat world

Friedman’s book “The world is flat” has created a huge impact in understanding the flat world. He argues that the invention of the Netscape browser, Windows operating system and the workflow software as the fundamental areas that created the movement of work in the flat world.
Other phenomenon like offshoring, Outsourcing, Insourcing, informing, open sourcing, Supply Chaining are more of steriods in creating the flatworld. Here is a pictorical representation of Firedman’s idea of the flatworld.