You for being late. [inaudible conversations] the staff here welcome. These are sponsored author talks as much as we would have liked to have you invest or on connecticut avenue. We are excited to use this spacious and comfortable setting for the author talks like the one this evening. And what a treat to have with us few people can foster the complexities and write about them as clearly at the start of his new book went into journalism in part because he was translating in english. It is singled out effecting our lives and the forces of Climate Change, technology and globalization. They discussed the accelerating changes for reshaping the lives and how we can cope with them. It looks at the community in which he grew up in st. Louis a suburb of minneapolis and connecting with others and succeeding. Its dating back to high school in minnesota and that has been his passion for journalism was sparked in when his interest in the middle east was ignited. College and graduate school focuses the studies on mediterranean and middle east so it only seemed fitting after becoming a journalist ended up in that part of the world. They first sent to tom to beirut and after he moved to the new york times, it wasnt long before they sent him back to beirut and off to jerusalem. Reporting in those years garnered two pulitzers for International Coverage and led to his first book from beirut to jerusalem locating in washington he was assigned a rather quick succession to three of the top reporting jobs, the chief diplomatic correspondent, White House Correspondent and International Economics correspondent. By 1995, 21 years ago, he took over the papers Foreign Affairs column and has been at it ever since. This is a commentary in 2002 and those that follow the column know they are not just about Foreign Affairs into the traditional sense of diplomacy and international conflict. They also deal with globalization, the, finance, technology and a number of other issues relevant to how the world works today. The previous books have exhibited a wide range of interest as well as the same engaging conversational style that is characterized in the columns. Tom writes for the general reader and as we are about to hear he pitches the talk for the general lister, to ask a please join me in welcoming tom friedman. The last time i was here, my daughter was here and my soninlaw was here. They are in the front row. To give a general overview than we have microphones then we have microphones in the front so im looking forward to your questions. The title of the book thank you for being late. Where does that come from lacks the title comes from people in washington, d. C. For breakfast over the years as a columnist and every once in a while someone would be ten, 15, 20 minutes late. The weather, traffic, and one day i spontaneously sent to one of them actually, thank you for being late is been eavesdropping on their conversation. Its the ideas that ive been struggling with for a month, so thank you for being late. And people started to get into it and said youre welcome. [laughter] they recognized what i was doing was giving them permission to pause, to slow down and reflect. My favorite quote in the beginning is from my friend who says when you press the pause button on the computer, it stops. But when you press the pause button on a human being, it starts. Rethink and reimagined. And this book was my attempt to press the pause button in order to reflect, rethink and reimagined where we are. And the book began with an applause where i stopped and engaged with someone that i normally wouldnt have. And it ended up in a sequence of events producing this book. I live in bethesda maryland and about once a week i take the subway to work so for me that means driving down bradley blvd. Beneath the bethesda hyatt and i did that almost three years ago now when i started this project. I drive to the cashiers booth and give you tickets to the the tickets to the cashiers and they look at me and said i know who you are. I read your column and i said great. He said i dont always agree. I said thats good it means you always have to check. We had a laugh and i drove off a of the at the cashiers booth and the same guys there. This time he says mr. Friedman, i have my own blog. Would you read it . What just happened. So he wrote it down and took a piece of tape and wrote it down. I went home and pulled it up and it turned out he was ethiopian and wrote about ethiopian politics from a democracy point of view on his website. I eventually concluded that this was a sign from god. I park my car under the gate and i said that night i wrote an email and repeated the emails in the front of the book and basically said to him i have a proposition for you. I see that you are proposing a deal. So we met two weeks later and i presented him with a memo on how to write a column and he told me his life story. I taught a course and sat down and reflected what it was about. The life story. On the websites they were slow slowed so she decided to start his own blog and now i feel empowered. They can get their voice out there so i then presented him with my nano and there were three different sessions. The new story is meant to inform and to do so better. I illuminate something for you and ideally as i do both, i would produce one of several reaction. I didnt know that, i never looked at it that way and i never connected those things. I explained to him that it requires a chemical reaction. First what is your value set and how do you lean into the world and what are the world worldviews you are trying to promote what is the value that you are trying to promote and how do you think the Machine Works, so it is my shorthand for the Biggest Forces shaping more things and more places and as a columnist im always carrying around a working hypothesis of how the Machine Works because im trying to take my valid use and push the machine and if i dont know how it works i either wont push it or i will push it in the wrong direction and all of my books have been one take or another. Its how the people and the culture affect the machine. Stir them together and let it rise. If you do it right, you will produce a column that produces more light. The more i explained this, the more i thought to myself if thats what the column is about, what is your value set and how do you think the Machine Works today and what have you learned about people and culture. I will focus on the core engine of the book and how the Machine Works today. We are in the middle of three explorations. One of them is exponential in the three largest forces on the planet all at the same time. I called and the market, Mother Nature and moores law. The speed and power microchips will double every 24 months. If you put the law in a graphic looks like this. Twitter, facebook, paypal things are digitized and globalized. It drives more Climate Change and solutions as well and that is shaping more things and places. Thats why the Second Chapter of the book. 2007, what was this guy talking about. The iphone came out in 2007, january, 2007 they unveiled the center in San Francisco beginning a process whereby we are putting an internetenabled handheld computer into the hands of every person on the planet. It became available to everyone with the address and a Company Called twitter. It went global in 2007. Its a company youve never heard off after the founders sons created the foundation for big data by creating a software platform. A company also launched assaults the Biggest Software repository in the world. Got an idea, no problem. Pull it off the shelf, fix it, improve it, put it back on the shelf. Its one of the most Important Companies in the world today and that isnt all that happened in 2007. In 2007, google came out with something called android. In 2007, i began started a computer called walks in and in 2007, the roommates in San Francisco thought it would be a cool idea to rent out their air mattresses to some guy is coming for a Design Conference and they started a company. Ever seen the grass of the price of sequencing of the human genome it looks like this. 100 million. 2007, look at the graph of solar energy. 2007, something we call the cloud started. Change. Org started in 2005, michael retired and have seen it all. In 2007 for the first time they went off to extend the law to the transistors. They were seen as the single greatest Inflection Point since gutenberg invented the printing press. Think about what happened. Right when our physical technologies took off we were on a moving sidewalk and something went from 5 miles an hour to 35 miles an hour. You need is to get the most out of the acceleration and cushioned the worst and we all basically froze. We have been living the last seven or eight years. Think about this in the context of 2007 and 2008 let me digress for one moment if you are an average worker with an average education, you actually could get something called a higher wage middle skilled job. I quoted a congressman from minnesota who said they needed a plan to fail. If you were an average worker, you needed a plan to fail because there was so much work. Then globalization starts to accelerate in the 80s, 90s and early 20th euros euros. What do we do for the average worker to help them compete, we gave them credit cards and mortgages and a loft were able to sustain themselves through the expansion of credit and by the value of the veterans. In 2007 and 2008. I will explain this in just a second. Machines and software. Its because of the 20 of eight crisis and the shock i would argue produced this election ended with a dislocated and angry people. All five parts, microchips for accelerating, software was accelerating, storage was accelerating and sensors are accelerating. In 2007, they all meld into something we call the cloud. I never used the term the cloud because it sounds so soft. I ive looked at clouds from both sides now. This is a supernova the largest force. It has basically two things that came together. I was here on the stage in 20052 told the story of a massive collapse in the price of fiber optic cables that happened as a result of the bubble and bust we made fiber optic cables so cheap we wired of the world and i gave the moment and name. I said the world was flat because we have collapsed the conductivity and we could suddenly touch people we could never touch before and we could be touched by people who could never before. I wrote a book called the world is flat. In 2007 as the broker says to me it is a bad year to stop. I basically stopped. When i wrote that book, i had missed something. Because i suddenly realized we were running around telling people the world is flat and facebook didnt exist. The cloud was still in the sky, big data was a rap star and all of that had happened between just 2005 and 2011. It all came together in 2007. And whats produced in fact, another price collapse only this time it was end of conductivity, it was the collapse in the price. We made computing and storage so cheap that we could make complexity easy for you and invisible. Theyve been abstracted away and its happening everywhere. Its like a change from solid to liquid. Its putting grease and leverage and everything so when you make conductivity free and you make complexity free and easy for you you get an incredible release of energy that changes. What one person can do as a maker or breaker is phenomenal. If we have a president elect who can sit in his penthouse now and on his iphone to 20 million people. Its changed the power machines that can now think. It was cold jeopardy. They had the alltime champions. Mr. Watson passed on the first question both before the humans on the second question and a ten under 2. 5 seconds, he said what is shoe. The world doesnt been the same since. It was figured out faster than two human beings and power machines. It is between any human beings that loved each other and keeps falling to that. Think of how quickly they flow and melt away and its changed the power of many. We as a collective are a force of nature. The newest geological era facilities for kinds of power are not just changing the world. They are fundamentally reshaping the world. Its about those that are being reshaped and we need to reimagine them. The workplace is being reshaped, geopolitics, ethics and the community. My chapter on how the workplace is being reshaped is how we turn Artificial Intelligence into intelligence assistance and intelligent algorithms there was a change in the pace of change one of the hardest things for the mind to grasp is the power of an exponential and that is what we are in the middle of. They said how can i reward you and he said i just want to feed my family. He said i would like one grain of rice on the first and then just keep doubling it and my family will be fine. The number you get is the team quintillion. You start to see cars that can drive themselves, machines that not only can win at jeopardy but basically ingested every article the power of an exponential is so hard to demonstrate that to give the users a feeling for this, its engineers on the back of an envelope said what if a 1971 beedle improved at the same rate as microchips and calculated they would go 300,000 Miles Per Hour and get 200 million per gallon and cost 4 cents. Thats the kind of exponential we are in and therefore we are feeling the change and pace of change in the workplace. I like to say when i got out of college i found a job and when my girls got out of college to invent a job and i think this will increasingly be true slips out of the turn Artificial Intelligence into this kind of assistance in algorithms. We have the hr policies of at t. Living on the edge of the supernova competing with verizon, tmobile, very interesting to understand what the policies are so we spent a lot of time. The ceo begins with a transparent and speech about what world he thinks they are in and what skills you will need as the employee this year and they put every employee on the system we have ten skills we think you need to thrive and youve got seven of them but you are missing three then they partnered with the Online Learning platform and a key creek aged man no degrees for all time and then they said we will give you 800,000 to take all these courses on one condition you have to take them on your own time. When the new jobs open up we wont go outside. If you want to be a lifelong employee coming to be a lifelong learner. If brad says i climbed up to many telephone poles im tired and dont want to take these courses, they have a wonderful severance package. That social contract is coming to a neighborhood near you. Theres 64 buildings in san diego and they basically retrofitted a bunch of the buildings with sensors on every computer in the door of your window, they just have sensors on everything. They been all of that data to the cloud and then to the generators. They give them an anthropogenic assistant to enable them to live above the line and that the it gives them a tour and that is what it does for the dignity of the person because they now have an intelligent assistant enabling them to operate at this higher level. Intelligent algorithm, by example that is the partnership between the College Board and the academy. At the democratic the all have kids in college. Yet you have to pay some kid 200 in order to lift your kid above the line. If you come from a family that cant afford that, you are behind from day one. Now he takes his exam in the 11th grade but you have a problem with fractions and right angles and then he takes them to a website devoted to fractions and right angles to exactly as weakness. He comes back and says have you thought of taking math in your senior year. It is an intelligent algorithm and last year, 2 million got free sat prep through this algorithm so what you find that would never have known from this campaign was Bernie Sanders was to take down the bank and people are actually doing amazing stuff to try to help people live in this higher case of change but it is a challenge. I will talk about my chapter on how we need to reimagine politics. We are in the middle of a Climate Change and climate of technology and change and globalization. We are going through three Climate Changes at once. You want brazilians you want to resell against. I thought how do we win the Climate Changes and then i realized there was a woman of 3. 8 billionyearsold, she was Mother Nature and she has been through more then anybody so i interviewed her and said how do you produce this when the Climate Changes and she said first of all, i do this unconsciously but i am incredibly adaptive. Only the adaptive survive. In the portal ecosystem is the most resilient ecosystem. Then she said i do believe in the state of the body and a circular. Im very sustainable. Then she said im incredibly entrepreneurial. She said you cant build anything resilient without time and to speed up the growth of a tree or gestation and all of. And the ecosystem is in balance it is highly resilient to the invasive species. The party lost ownership of the system and donald trump was an invasive species. That is exactly what happened by the way. Last, she said i believe in the solutions. Im very hybrid. Theres nothing dogmatic about me. Last i do believe in the loss of bankruptcy, return them to the great manufacture and take their energy to nourish my successes. I basically argue within the political systems they must consciously mirror what will be the most resilient in the age of acceleration and then i took it one step further and said to myself what his Mother Nature running if she had a party up with her platform be and i invented Mother Natures Political Party. We should have a singlepayer healthcare system. The same timeline to the right of the editorial page and i would