The+Steroids

"The steroids" are factors that amplify and supercharge all the other existing flatteners, enabling them to be used in digital, mobile, virtual, and personal ways. There are six types of steroids, each involving different aspects of technology:
 * Background**:
 * #1 - Involves computing because data processing speed is constantly being increased, and old computer chips are being replaced with newer and faster ones to improve upon the steroid.
 * #2 - Breakthroughs in instant messaging and file sharing, such as peer-to-peer networks.
 * #3 - Breakthroughs in being able to make phone calls via the Internet, collaborating forms of digitized data.
 * #4 - Videoconferencing. Creates an effect of everyone sitting in the same room, while really they are being connected from anywhere around the world via satellite.
 * #5 - Advancements made with computer graphics. Enhancement visual graphics and images as well as increased manipulation of the images on the screen.
 * #6 - Wireless technologies and devices. These are the "ubersteroids" and they allow us to manipulate, share, and shape our digital content from anywhere in the world with anyone in the world.


 * Major distringuishing characteristics:**
 * Digital - All analog processes are now being digitized so that they can be transmitted through computers, Internet, satellites, or fiber optic cable.
 * Virtual - The process of sharping, manipulating, and transmitting digitized content is done at very high speeds.
 * Mobile - The process of digitizing and virtualizing data can be done from anywhere in the world.
 * Personal - These processes can be done by an individual for/on a personal device.

Steroids speed up the growth and development of technologies as well as increases its importance in our daily world. There are increases of intercommunication between people and computers which aid the developing world as well as businesses and companies, and it further flattens the world by allowing more people to hear one another and work together.
 * Ultimate significance:**