Thomas L. Friedman Thank You for Being Late-谢谢你的迟到

这是《纽约时报》畅销作者Thomas L. Friedman至今最具抱负的一本书，这位专精于全球性议题和时事分析的新闻记者，也是三座普利策奖的得主。

《Thank You for Being Late》是一部现代史著作，主题是21世纪的三大冲击：新技术，全球化以及气候变化。Thomas L. Friedman在书中用许多精彩实例告诉我们现今已经步入一个快到令人目眩神迷的时代，并且告诉我们该如何安度这个加速时代。

这也是关于“迟到”的一个新论点，因为它不再盲目地欣赏当下这个发展迅猛的时代，而是在反思它的可能性和潜在的危险。

书名：Thank You for Being Late《谢谢你的迟到》

简介：A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers

In his most ambitious work to date, 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). With vision, authority, and wit, Thank You for Being Late establishes a blueprint for how to think about our times.