#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.
