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发表于2025-03-29
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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.
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?
评分3.5星。全书围绕信息化、全球化、气候变化、相互依赖式新型地缘政治和如何适应加速时代这几大主体紧密展开。调研走访非常扎实,开头因此很吸引人,能领略到很多前沿工作者的态度眼光,细微之处不乏精妙。但读到后面不由觉得这就是个他人话语的调查报告。作者自己的一些观点如果不能说不够个人,那就只能说不够新颖。尤其后面提到要学习Mother Nature治理国家,浅显娱乐化凸显。作者面对整个技术趋势的勇气和乘风破浪的决心于我最impressive. Adaptability without humiliation.美国不被撼动的技术精英其实在说roll with all the changes. 这是普罗大众做不到的。作者的乐观主义还是天真可能是美国改变先锋愿意接受的现实主义。
评分A cliché-ridden recount of old news.
评分一直到写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~
评分有点延续《世界是平的》的角度。更专注科技怎样在加速改变世界的进程。Friedman 一文科出身,要将芯片互联网云等热点科技讲清楚,确实是挺费劲的。不过他收集各种材料来讲他想讲的故事的能力真是了得。
——读《谢谢你迟到——以慢制胜,破题未来格局》有感 之前错过了读弗里德曼的《世界是平的》,这本书到现在还一直在书架上躺着,不是没有看,而是流行时买来了看不进去,就放下了。月初看到书友会推荐共读弗里德曼的新作,为了控制自己,索性参加了共读。事实证明,幸好有共读...
评分 评分本书阐述了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...
评分作者托马斯·弗里德曼,用等待迟到朋友这段时间整理自己对世界的思考,也是这段独处的时间让他写下这篇《谢谢你迟到》,如果你看过《世界是平的》,那么你会发现本书是对《世界是平的》扩充以及延续。 一、世界是平的 因为谷歌,推特我们的信息再也不是有边界了,我们的商业思...
评分《纽约时报》专栏作家托马斯·弗里德曼写的《谢谢你迟到》。作者是名犹太人,当过驻黎巴嫩急着,经历过外来民族的个人体验,对比过中东与“现在的美国”。在本书中,弗里德曼通过3个M,即经济全球化、摩尔定律和气候变化这三个主要力量,从这三个方面向读者展现我们所处的加速...
Thank You for Being Late pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025