Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M6Y5Y66 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 282 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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With vision, authority, and wit, Thank You for Being Late establishes a blueprint for how to think about our times.. Due to an exponential increase in computing power, climbers atop Mount Everest enjoy excellent cell phone service, and self-driving cars are taking to the roads. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration - and explains how to live in it. Today, by contrast, it is easier than ever to be a maker (try 3-D printing) or a breaker (the Islamic State excels at using Twitter) but harder than ever to be a leader or merely average. How do these changes interact, and how can we cope with them? To get a better purchase on the present, Friedman returns to his Minnesota childhood and sketches a world where politics worked and joining the middle class was an achievable goal. Friedman concludes that nations and individuals must learn to be fast (innovative and quick to adapt), fair (prepared to help the casualties of change), and slow (adept at shutting out the noise and accessing their deepest values). A field guide to the 21st century, written by one of its most celebrated observers In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. A parallel explosion of economic interdependency has created new riches as well as sp
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