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.
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.
發表於2024-05-17
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四星,倒數最後三章試圖提供解決方案的部分實在不明所以,當個人和社會整體都要被甩齣車廂的時候,社區怎麼會成為一個獨善之地呢?作者故鄉的案例恰恰是在之前,按照作者說法,2007年之前的速度下形成的成功故事,對於未來的藉鑒很難有效。 至於本書的前半部分,當的起奇書的評...
評分作者托馬斯·弗裏德曼,用等待遲到朋友這段時間整理自己對世界的思考,也是這段獨處的時間讓他寫下這篇《謝謝你遲到》,如果你看過《世界是平的》,那麼你會發現本書是對《世界是平的》擴充以及延續。 一、世界是平的 因為榖歌,推特我們的信息再也不是有邊界瞭,我們的商業思...
評分 評分當我們在途中漫步時,我們都會在路途上遇到那麼一兩個或者人或者物的“導師”。 世界在發生著翻天覆地的變化,誰會停下腳步來發現、觀察、描述著它。托馬斯·弗裏德曼教授的《謝謝你遲到》,書中托馬斯·弗裏德曼教授說“在這個加速變化的時代,重要的不是每天匆匆忙忙,而是要...
評分2016年共享單車的概念忽然火遍全國,一時之間人們戲稱共享單車目前遇到的最大難題是顔色不夠用瞭。然而當時間走到2017年,曾經不斷湧現的共享單車公司卻相繼關停退齣市場。這一進一退時間不過隔瞭短短瞭一年,如此迅速的變化讓人錯愕,然而事件本身卻不足為奇。這是一個不斷加...
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Patience wasn’t just the absence of speed. It was space for reflection and thought.
評分一直到寫Minnesota之前的幾章我都覺得氣勢宏大,雖然作者的主要觀點不算新穎,但作者已多年的記者身份旁徵博引舉瞭很多生動的例子——特彆是對於中東國傢如何在氣候變化的影響下加劇瞭區域不穩定性,並將這不穩定性蔓延到世界各地的論述非常精彩。但最後兩章有點囉嗦,略讀也罷~
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評分Patience wasn’t just the absence of speed. It was space for reflection and thought.
評分Was assigned by the Company to read it back in 2017, still got zero interest regardless of several attempts... Tedious, disorganized, loosely based, and extremely disappointing, and what’s the point of having a book name like this?
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