Thank You for Being Late

An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

Friedman, Thomas L. 저자(글)

Picador USA · 2017년 10월 24일

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#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.

작가정보

저자(글) Friedman, Thomas L.

세 차례나 퓰리처상을 수상한 저명한 언론인 겸 작가. 『뉴욕타임스』의 인기 칼럼니스트로 세계적인 국제 분야 전문가다. 국제질서와 외교관계, 세계화 및 중동 문제에 관해 쓴 칼럼들은 깊이와 대중성을 겸비한 것으로 평가받고 있다. 또한 『렉서스와 올리브나무』 『세계는 평평하다』 『코드 그린: 뜨겁고 평평하고 붐비는 세계』 등 저서 대부분을 베스트셀러 목록에 올린 유명 작가이기도 하다. 미네소타 주 세인트루이스 파크에서 태어나 브랜다이스대학을 최우등으로 졸업하고 옥스퍼드대학(세인트 앤터니스 칼리지)에서 중동학 석사학위를 받았다. UPI통신 베이루트 특파원을 거쳐, 『뉴욕타임스』의 베이루트 지국장, 예루살렘 지국장을 지냈고, 백악관 출입 기자를 역임했다. 베이루트와 예루살렘 지국장 시절 취재 기사로 두 차례 퓰리처상을 받았으며, 이때의 경험에 바탕한 첫 저서 『베이루트에서 예루살렘까지』(1989)로 ‘전미 도서상’을 수상했다. 세계화에 대한 명쾌한 해석을 보여준 두 번째 저서 『렉서스와 올리브나무』(1999)는 큰 화제를 불러오며 경제경영 분야 스테디셀러로 자리매김했다. 9.11 이전과 이후 세계정세와 흐름이 어떻게 바뀌었는지 명확하게 보여준 칼럼 모음집 『경도와 태도』(2002)로 세 번째 퓰리처상을 수상했다. 네 번째 저서 『세계는 평평하다』(2005)는 ‘세계화 통찰의 결정판’으로 큰 반향을 불러일으켰으며, 『파이낸셜 타임스』와 골드만삭스가 공동 제정한 ‘올해의 경제경영서’에 선정되었다. 환경·에너지위기와 경제위기를 극복할 청사진으로 그린혁명을 주창한 다섯 번째 저서 『코드 그린: 뜨겁고 평평하고 붐비는 세계』(2008)는 오바마 정부가 국정 최우선 과제로 추진 중인 그린 뉴딜 정책의 근간을 제시한 것으로 평가받고 있다.

목차

• PART I: REFLECTING
  1. Thank You for Being Late
  
  PART II: ACCELERATING
  2. What the Hell Happened in 2007?
  3. Moore?s Law
  4. The Supernova
  5. The Market
  6. Mother Nature
  
  PART III: INNOVATING
  7. Just Too Damned Fast
  8. Turning AI into IA
  9. Control vs. Kaos
  10. Mother Nature as Political Mentor
  11. Is God in Cyberspace?
  12. Always Looking for Minnesota
  13. You Can Go Home Again (and You Should!)
  
  PART IV: ANCHORING
  14. From Minnesota to the World and Back
  
  Afterword to the 2017 Edition

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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
Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

"Thomas L. Friedman is a self-­confessed 'explanatory journalist'―whose goal is to be a 'translator from English to English.' And he is extremely good at it . . . it is hard to think of any other journalist who has explained as many complicated subjects to so many people . . . Now he has written his most ambitious book―part personal odyssey, part commonsense manifesto . . . As a guide for perplexed Westerners, this book is very hard to beat." ―John Micklethwait, The New York Times Book Review

"[An] ambitious book . . . In a country torn by a divisive election, technological change and globalization, reconstructing social ties so that people feel respected and welcomed is more important than ever . . . Rather than build walls, [healthy communities] face their problems and solve them. In [Friedman's] telling, this is the way to make America great." ―Laura Vanderkam, The Wall Street Journal

"Engaging . . . in some senses Thank You For Being Late is an extension of [Friedman's] previous works, woven in with wonderful personal stories (including admirably honest discussions about the nature of being a columnist). What gives Friedman’s book a new twist is his belief that upheaval in 2016 is actually far more dramatic than earlier phases . . . Friedman also argues that Americans need to discover their sense of 'community,' and uses his home town of Minneapolis to demonstrate this." ―Gillian Tett, Financial Times

"The globe-trotting New York Times columnist’s most famous book was about the world being flat. This one is all about the world being fast . . . His main piece of advice for individuals, corporations, and countries is clear: Take a deep breath and adapt. This world isn’t going to wait for you." ―Fortune

"[A] humane and empathetic book." ―David Henkin, The Washington Post

"[Friedman's] latest engrossingly descriptive analysis of epic trends and their consequences . . . Friedman offers tonic suggestions for fostering 'moral innovation' and a commitment to the common good in this detailed and clarion inquiry, which, like washing dirty windows, allows us to see far more clearly what we’ve been looking at all along . . . his latest must-read." ―Booklist (starred review)

"The three-time Pulitzer winner puts his familiar methodology―extensive travel, thorough reporting, interviews with the high-placed movers and shakers, conversations with the lowly moved and shaken―to especially good use here . . . He prescribes nothing less than a redesign of our workplaces, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and communities . . . Required reading for a generation that's 'going to be asked to dance in a hurricane.'" ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

기본정보

ISBN	9781250141224 ( 1250141222 )
발행(출시)일자	2017년 10월 24일
쪽수	560쪽
크기	140 * 208 * 23 mm / 410 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어