This book review summarizes Thomas L. Friedman's book "Thank You For Being Late". It discusses how the book explains how technology, globalization, climate change and biodiversity loss have transformed the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics and communities in the 21st century. The exponential increase in computing power through advances like the iPhone played a major role in changing people's environment. The author believes we can overcome stresses of acceleration if we slow down and reimagine our work, politics and communities.

1. BOOK REVIEW

2. Thank You For BeingLate
-Thomas L. Friedman

3. • In Thank You For Being Late, Thomas L. Friedman exposes
the movements that are reshaping the world today and
shows how we can get the most out of them and how to stay
safe from their worst impacts.
• It changes the reader’s view of the world. The news received,
the work done, the education needed, the moral choices are
all impacted by this book.
• The author shows that how the 21st century was impacted by
technology, globalization, climate change and biodiversity
loss. These factors played a major role in transforming
workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics and the community.

4. • The author also talks about how the exponential increase in
computing power played a major role in changing the
environment around people.
• Some examples of this were release of iPhone, advance in
silicon chip, softwares, sensors, networking, etc.
• The author compares this phenomenon to a supernova as it’s
release causes major changes in our surroundings by creating
some opportunities while at the same time destroying some.

5. • This book is the authors opinion in how to think about this
era of fast changes.
• It stops to appreciate all the changes around us and thus
being late.
• 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 our work, politics, and
community.

6. Sapiens:A Brief History of
Humankind
-Yuval Noah Harari

7. • Sapiens: A brief history of human kind aims to provide a
readable and concise historical summary of the progress of
human evolution.
• It explains complex issues in a way which can actually be
understood and comprehended by most people.
• The author also spends many pages on our present and
possible future rather than our past.
• The book begins strong enough with a very interesting
presentation of early human history and development of
early human species.

8. • Gossip of humans leads to shared tales about common
experiences, ancestors, and problems. These tales evolve
into myths which are widely shared and identify large groups
as ‘us’.
"There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no
human rights, no laws and no justice outside the common
imagination of human beings."
o As modern existential and linguistic philosophers have
thought for some time, these ideas - scientific, religious,
technological, social, legal - are fundamental fictions that
become progressively indistinguishable from the ‘natural’
world which is apart from the imagined world of language.

9. • Although the author later brings up valid concerns about our
treatment of animals and abuse of collective power, his rant
against agriculture is truly bizarre considering that without it
he would not be able to write this very book.