《Thank You for Being Late》是Farrar Straus & Giroux出版的圖書，作者是Thomas L. Friedman
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780374900434
- 作者：Thomas L. Friedman
- 出版社：Farrar Straus & Giroux
- 出版時間：2016年11月22日
- 頁數：320
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
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...(展開全部) 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 computi
