Thank You for Being Late

Thomas L. Friedman is a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with The New York Times and the author of six bestselling books, including The World Is Flat.

出版者:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

作者:Thomas L. Friedman

页数:496

出版时间:2016-11-22

价格:USD 28.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780374273538

图书标签:ThomasFriedman美国社会商业社会学tech艺术史小说

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers

We all sense it―something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can’t miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once―and it is dizzying.

In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them and cushion their worst impacts. You will never look at the world the same way again after you read this book: how you understand the news, the work you do, the education your kids need, the investments your employer has to make, and the moral and geopolitical choices our country has to navigate will all be refashioned by Friedman’s original analysis.

Friedman begins by taking us into his own way of looking at the world―how he writes a column. After a quick tutorial, he proceeds to write what could only be called a giant column about the twenty-first century. His thesis: to understand the twenty-first century, you need to understand that the planet’s three largest forces―Moore’s law (technology), the Market (globalization), and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)―are accelerating all at once. These accelerations are transforming five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community.

Why is this happening? As Friedman shows, the exponential increase in computing power defined by Moore’s law has a lot to do with it. The year 2007 was a major inflection point: the release of the iPhone, together with advances in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors, and networking, created a new technology platform. Friedman calls this platform “the supernova”―for it is an extraordinary release of energy that is reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to our most intimate relationships. It is creating vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world―or to destroy it.

Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to write and think about this era of accelerations. It’s also an argument for “being late”―for pausing to appreciate this amazing historical epoch we’re passing through and to reflect on its possibilities and dangers. To amplify this point, Friedman revisits his Minnesota hometown in his moving concluding chapters; there, he explores how communities can create a “topsoil of trust” to anchor their increasingly diverse and digital populations.

With his trademark vitality, wit, and optimism, Friedman shows that we can overcome the multiple stresses of an age of accelerations―if we slow down, if we dare to be late and use the time to reimagine work, politics, and community. Thank You for Being Late is Friedman’s most ambitious book―and an essential guide to the present and the future.

读后感

本书阐述了3个问题： 第1个问题：什么是今天世界上最强大的几股力量，能够在更多时候，更多地点，影响着更多的人和事。 （1）市场：数字全球化 （2）大自然：气候变化、生物多样性的损失以及人口增长 （3）摩尔定律：英特尔公司联合创始人戈登·摩尔命名的摩尔定律：每隔24个月...  

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四星，倒数最后三章试图提供解决方案的部分实在不明所以，当个人和社会整体都要被甩出车厢的时候，社区怎么会成为一个独善之地呢？作者故乡的案例恰恰是在之前，按照作者说法，2007年之前的速度下形成的成功故事，对于未来的借鉴很难有效。 至于本书的前半部分，当的起奇书的评...

四星，倒数最后三章试图提供解决方案的部分实在不明所以，当个人和社会整体都要被甩出车厢的时候，社区怎么会成为一个独善之地呢？作者故乡的案例恰恰是在之前，按照作者说法，2007年之前的速度下形成的成功故事，对于未来的借鉴很难有效。 至于本书的前半部分，当的起奇书的评...

用户评价

讀不下去

Patience wasn’t just the absence of speed. It was space for reflection and thought.

还在读呢，就觉得作者一些论证很不严密啊，比如文化多样性和经济发展到底谁先谁后，植物的多样性以利于生态自然进步但这与人类社会发展有什么瓜系。四章观点都写的太散了，根本没说明好论点…… 读罢，sb书滚！

Complexity is free

只能说很普通，都是别人的东西。其实别人的东西拿来能说好也行，可是安排上是云里雾里，不知道想要阐述什么。里面quote了无数人，这些人或多或少都写过一些书，基本上都是没有听说过的，美国人真喜欢写书。