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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780241300978 |
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303.483 |
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F7T4 |
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Friedman, Thomas L. |
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340150 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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Thank you for being late: an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations |
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Friedman, Thomas L. |
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Allen Lane |
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2016 |
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United Kingdom |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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486 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are speeding up - and it is dizzying.<br/><br/>In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike any 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.<br/><br/>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. An extraordinary release of energy 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 perhaps to destroy it.<br/><br/>Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field 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. He shows us how we can anchor ourselves as individuals in the eye of this storm, and how communities can create a 'topsoil of trust' to do the same for their increasingly diverse and digital populations.<br/><br/>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 all over the world, Thank You for Being Late is Friedman's most ambitious book - and an essential guide to the present and the future.<br/><br/>https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305043/thank-you-for-being-late/ |
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Climatic changes - Social aspects |
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Political participation |
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Civilization - Modern - 21st century |
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Time perception - Social aspects |
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Technological innovations - Social aspects |
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Globalization |
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Book |
