..what the flattening of the world means is that we are now connecting all the knowledge centers on the planet together into a single global network.
Knowledge and global network
That is why I introduced the idea that the world has gone from round to flat. Everywhere you turn, hierarchies are being challenged from below or transforming themselves from top-down structure into more horizontal and collaborative ones.
The world is flat
There is no future in vanilla for most companies in a flat world. A lot of vanilla making in software and other areas is going to shift to open-source communities.
Open-source communities
My bottom line is this: Open-source is an important flattener because it makes available for free many tools, from software to encyclopedias, that millions of people around the world would have had to buy in order to use, and because opensource network associations – with their open borders and come-one-come-all approach
