Thank you for being late : an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations
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Thank you for being late : an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations
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- Thank you for being late : an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations
- Title remainder
- an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations
- Statement of responsibility
- Thomas L. Friedman
- Title variation
- Thank you for being late
- Title variation remainder
- an optimists guide to thriving in the age of accelerations
- Subject
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- trueClimatic changes -- Social aspects
- Climatic changes -- Social aspects
- trueEducational policy
- Geopolitics
- trueGeopolitics
- Globalization
- trueGlobalization
- trueHuman/computer interaction
- trueInformation technology
- trueInternational relations
- Large type books
- Large type books
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
- Political participation
- truePolitical participation
- truePolitics and global affairs -- World politics
- trueSocial change
- trueSociety and culture -- Media and technology
- trueTechnological innovations -- Social aspects
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Technology and civilization
- trueTechnology and civilization
- trueWorld politics
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government
- Civilization, Modern
- Civilization, Modern -- 21st century
- trueClimate change
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration--and explains how to live in it. 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. A parallel explosion of economic interdependency has created new riches as well as spiraling debt burdens. Meanwhile, Mother Nature is also seeing dramatic changes as carbon levels rise and species go extinct, with compounding results. 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. 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." 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). cFrom goodreads.com
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- Dewey number
- 303.48/3
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HM846
- LC item number
- .F739 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print core
- Target audience
- adult
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