This document summarizes Thomas Friedman's book "Thank You for Being Late". It discusses how technological progress, particularly since 2007, has accelerated changes in many aspects of life. Friedman calls this period "the supernova". The book is divided into sections on reflecting on change, accelerating innovation, and anchoring ourselves amidst disruption. Friedman found moments of calm and community that helped him better understand and cope with the pace of modern life. He emphasizes the need for social and political systems to adapt to new challenges wrought by emerging technologies.

1. THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE
• A book by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN.
• His book THANKYOU FOR BEING LATE is
Published by Farrar, Straus and Girox. New
York.

2. CONTENT
• INTORDUCTION
• SUMMARY
• CRITIQUE
• AUTHOR’S LAST WORD (CONCLUSION)

3. INTRODUCTION
• Friedman shows, the exponential increase in
computing power defined by Moore’s law has a lot to
do with it. The year 2007 was a major inflection
point: the release of the iPhone, together with
advances in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors,
and networking, created a new technology platform.
Friedman calls this platform “the supernova”―for it
is an extraordinary release of energy that 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 to destroy it.

4. INTODUCTION
• The book is divided into four parts -
• Reflecting,
• Accelerating,
• Innovating
• Anchoring.
• When a friend arrived late for lunch, Friedman
said, "Thank You for Being Late", as it gave him
time to reflect, to listen to what taking place
around him was and to slow down the pace.

5. SUMMARY
• Friedman reflects upon the speed of modern life.
Not only is it fast, it is accelerating. Friedman began
a deeper understanding of this reality when he was
forced to pause while waiting for a late breakfast
guest. When future guests were late allowing him
additional pauses, he thanked them—hence the title
of the book. Friedman also relates how a pause led
to a deep and meaningful connection with a parking
lot attendant that further opened his understanding
of the accelerating world. In what areas does
Friedman highlight the impact of accelerating
change in the world? What examples of accelerating
change are most evident in daily life?

6. SUMMARY
• Friedman focused on finding and creating an
eye of calm in the storm of change. Friedman
illustrated such calm with an example of
community in his hometown. As accelerating
change threatens to overwhelm our ability to
keep up with today’s events, where is there room
to learn from the past? How can we best learn
from past? How does the Air Force’s present
sense of community compare with its sense of
community in the past?

7. CRITIQUE
• As enthralled users of new communications devices, we are all
attuned to the transformative power of technological
innovation. But what does this phenomenon really signify?
• Didn’t earlier generations also experience innovations and
dislocations as ruptures? For more than a decade, New York
Times journalist Thomas Friedman has been raising his hand
to offer emphatic answers to these difficult questions.
• As in his earlier writings, he again insists in “Thank You for
Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of
Accelerations” that the present and the future are different
from the past, especially in how rapidly and significantly
things change.
• And as his subtitle suggests, he is remarkably sanguine about
what this might portend.

8. AUTHOR’S LAST WORD
• Today's technological revolutions are vast enough to be termed
beyond "the cloud" to his description as "the supernova".
• He correctly cites the lag in social and political innovations which
must now be overcome by such units as OTA, still copied in many
other countries but shut down in the USA in 1996. Many obsolete
political parties, health and educational systems, tax and trade
policies need overhauling today, as Friedman describes.
• To restore lost trust in current institutions, Friedman ends with
recalling his childhood in Minnesota with its inclusive humanity and
the community responsibility of its civic and business leaders in
such innovative groups as The Itasca Project.
• I recall being an early presenter at their first meeting at Lake Itasca
along with radical economist Michael Harrington who explored the
roots of poverty and exclusion in the US economy which burst forth
in our 2016 elections.

9. THANK YOU
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