·       Flattener  #4: Uploading: societies uploading and cooperate with each other on online projects. For example, open source software, blogs, and Wikipedia.

·        Flattener #5: Outsourcing: Outsourcing has allowed companies to opening service and developed activities into machinery that can be delegated and completed in the most capable and cost-effective way. With the mass division of fiber optic cables during the opening of the World Wide Web, the evolution became easier.

·      Flattener   #6: Offshoring: The domestic rearrangement of a company's manufacturing or other practices to a strange land to take benefit of less expensive operations there. China's access in the World Trade Organization (WTO) allowed for greater opposition in the live field.

Friedman argues that the flattener #4 is the most disruptive force of all because communities upload and work with each other on online projects.