strong_computerFlattener 10: The Steroids

Wireless technology is taking all of the flatteners and making it possible to do each of them in a way that is Digital, Mobile, Personal, and Virtual.

 

  Size of Memory Storage: Microchips are getting smaller, allowing more data to be stored on smaller devices and allowing more data to move faster than ever before.   Video Conferencing: Makes remote development, outsourcing, and off-shoring much easier and more efficient the more it is utilized by businesses.
  File Sharing: Computer users can now share documents, songs, videos and more online.   Computer Graphics Improvements: Improved graphics is enhacing video collaboration and computing -- it is changing the way people interact with comptuers.
  Phone Calls Over The Internet: Phone calls have gotten easier and cheaper thanks to VoIP. This steroid will make any phone call to anywhere almost free.   Wireless Technologies & Devices: This has taken all the new forms of collaboriton and made them mobile. Users can now manipulate, share, and shape digital content with anyone, anywhere, mobily.
 
from Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century