#1 New York Times Bestseller - Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The Wall Street Journal 's 10 Books to Read Now - One of Kirkus Reviews 's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year - One of Publishers Weekly 's Most Anticipated Books of the Year Shortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Version 2.0, Updated and Expanded, with a New Afterword We all sense it--something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. ...
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#1 New York Times Bestseller - Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The Wall Street Journal 's 10 Books to Read Now - One of Kirkus Reviews 's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year - One of Publishers Weekly 's Most Anticipated Books of the Year Shortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Version 2.0, Updated and Expanded, with a New Afterword 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 , version 2.0, with a new afterword, 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. 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. The year 2007 was the major inflection point: the release of the iPhone, together with advances in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors, and networking, created a new technology platform that is reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to our most intimate relationships. It is providing vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world--or to destroy it. 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 an essential guide to the present and the future.
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Friedman, Thomas L., 2016, Thank You for Being Late. An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of
Accelerations: NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 486 p.
This lengthy book is actually a combination of two or more diverse subject matters written under an obscure title. It is the latest in a series of seven such tomes by Friedman. In order to understand the book, one has to know something about the author, who was born to Jewish migrants in Minnesota in 1953. After attending various universities in the U.S. and in England, the author went to work for United Press International in Beirut in 1979 having obtained some facility in the various Arabic languages. Friedman became a foreign correspondent for the NY Times in 1981. He stayed overseas for thirteen years and then returned to New York all the while writing books and editorial columns for the Times.
The most interesting part of Thank You is in parts II and III, pages 19 to 244, which summarize the tremendous technological advances in computer science [main frames] since 1957. These rapid advances have left the average older person far behind in modern technology. Friedman gives a relatively good outline of major innovations in computer enhancement from the time of desktops about 1963, transisters [chips], about 1965, and later laptops and cloud technology ["supernovas"; about 2002], of hand held iPhones [2007] and now GPS and 3-D printing. [To these we can add digital cameras, TVs, satellites, among others.] The author barely mentions cybersecurity, DNA, and software..
Friedman occasionally digresses into subjects outside the realm of this book. For instance he refers at various times to "global warming" [the current vogue among the public and politicians] and mixes it with climate cycles [climates have changed over the last 4,600 million years, at least five times violently as evidenced by the fossil record]. Many comments tend to be unrealistic and uneconomic, i.e., solar and wind power and biofuels.
The author repeats sections of his earlier books on recent industrialization ["globalization"]. In countries such as Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan, this has been accompanied by rapidly expanding populations [not to mention uncontrolled cancer causing pollution]. Other countries cited include Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, and Uganda. These countries are providing waves of illegal immigrants to and undue pressure on the United States, Europe, and Israel.
On pages 328 to 335, Friedman list fifteen major governmental changes [regulations] that he would make to provide better government in Washington [good luck on that].
The remainder of the book, following pages 337 through 453, is a philosophical discussion of growing up in a small community near St. Paul, MN. Here Friedman devotes attention to the community's history and its widely diverse cultures of Swedes, Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, and more recently transplants of Somalis and Laotian Hmong groups who brought together into modern schools an overwhelming and counterproductive "forty-some languages."
