书籍 Thank You for Being Late的封面

Thank You for Being Late

Thomas L. Friedman

出版时间

2016-11-22

ISBN

9780374273538

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

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.

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.

目录
Part I. Reflecting. Thank you for being late
Part II. Accelerating. What the hell happened in 2007?
Moore's law
The supernova
The market

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用户评论
问题是回不去过去的节奏啊……
大名鼎鼎的专栏作家写出这样的书真是对不起读者/听众。文不对题,词不达意。方方面面都要提到,但是又都是浅尝辄止。科技部分显然是道听途说几个新鲜词,super nova/cloud听得我要吐。全书唯一可以看的是有关他高中同学的八卦。听的有声书,1.6倍语速,权当练习听力了。
Patience wasn’t just the absence of speed. It was space for reflection and thought.
一直到写Minnesota之前的几章我都觉得气势宏大,虽然作者的主要观点不算新颖,但作者已多年的记者身份旁征博引举了很多生动的例子——特别是对于中东国家如何在气候变化的影响下加剧了区域不稳定性,并将这不稳定性蔓延到世界各地的论述非常精彩。但最后两章有点啰嗦,略读也罢~
It’s just full of lots of examples that are relating the same idea - this is a age of acceleration. But , what should human reflect ourselves on that ? What about the down side of acceleration ? No enough arguments on why we should be optimistic..
啰嗦废话多
看了一半,除了开头的故事外,其他的都在堆砌科技的发展和带来的变化。
前半段分析supernova的时候引人入胜,后半段讲人类应对的时候有些落入俗套。讲到social capital算是意外之喜。let technology help people to collaborate. Trust is the key in the first place.
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