We all sense it - something big is going on. Our lives are speeding up - and it is dizzying.
In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike any he has written before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them.
Friedman's thesis is that 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 all accelerating at once, transforming the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics and community.
Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a held manual for how to 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 reflecting on its possibilities and dangers.
Written with his trademark vitality, wit and optimism, and with unequalled access to many of those at the forefront of the changes he is describing, Thank You for Being Late is Friedman's most ambitious book - and an essential guide to the present and the future.
