What is the “flat-world platform,” what are its three components, and what makes it so empowering for individuals?

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman describes ten things that he believes are behind the current phase of globalization. Friedman uses the image of a “flat” world to describe the process of globalization.

Although Friedman identifies 10 things that have led to this increasingly globalized world, he describes three of these things as the “platform” on which the globalized world is built:

1. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the development of the Apple and Windows-enabled personal computer (PC),
2.The development of the Internet, the World Wide Web and web browsers,
3.The development of work-flow software.

The statistics for the eastern war are grim. more than three-million men died in the fighting, more than nine-million men were wounded, and every major country which participated lost its form of government.