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Triple Convergence

Friedman (2006) proposes that a convergence of three factors has resulted in a startling new direction for the world economy and its workers. These factors include (1) the advent of the flat world platform (itself the result of a set of 10 flattening factors, all resulting in the creation of a new technology and workflow process that allows all individuals connected to the platform to compete worldwide), (2) trends toward a "horizontal" competitiveness (in which the goal of a worker is to gain effective use as quickly as possible of useful information and resources), and (3) a gradual but staggering increase in the number of new players (countries, organizations, and especially workers) in the effective world economy (more than doubled since the 1980s, with most of the new workers being from culturally different backgrounds than those of the old world economy).

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