In his best-selling book, The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman argues that many of the barriers protecting businesses and employees from global competition have been broken down due to dramatic improvements in communication and transportation technologies. The result is a level playing field that spans the entire world. As we move into the information age, any work that can be digitized will flow to those who are best able to do it, whether they live in San Jose's Silicon Valley or Bangalore, India. For physical products, supply chains now span the world. For example, raw materials might be extracted in South America, electronic components manufactured in Asia, computers assembled in the United States, and the final products sold in Europe.
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