Host there is a photo that purports to be Thomas Friedman. Tom is younger but it looks like he is accelerating in reverse in that photo. Tom spent his life getting out into the world. Thorough research and speaking to people in every station of life, every walk of life and around the planet. The result is something quite different from the cynicism and snark integration we encounter so often in todays media universe. What we get instead is a pair of rarities, insight and wisdom. They are the product of real reporting and serious reflection. Themselves all too rare. Those qualities could be found in his previous bestselling books and you can find them in his latest, thank you for being thank you for being late an optimists guide to thriving in the age of accelerations. When the editorinchief of bloomberg and former editor of the economist wrote his review of Thomas Friedmans book for the New York Times he rightly observed it is hard to think of any other journalist who has explained as many collocated subjects to so many people. Among the central subjects tom explains now is the more exhausting pace of technological change. There have to be many of you who, like me, wonder if they can keep up with the rush of the new technology we encounter every day and wonder what the seemingly endless revolutions of technology will signify for workers and kids and the entire human race. Tom explains how technology is changing with such speed, why things will get faster and where this appears to be taking us. When tom tells us things will get faster and reminds us there are 10 billion things connected to the internet that is less than 1 of the possible total, you may suffer the anxiety that this book seeks to cure but tom lets us know it is going to be okay. You will be hearing from an optimist. Lets see if he can make optimists of all of you. Than the other great forces, the global markets, speed and adaptability and finally and importantly, Climate Change. We can use those words here, by the way. [applause] bloomberg calls toms book and honest, cohesive explanation for why the world is the way it is with miracle cures, the Financial Times in its review notes that tom offers sensible solutions but, quote, does not offer easy, slogan friendly ideas. Imagines that. Someone has proposed ways to confront the challenges of our World Without slogans, miracle cures or scapegoats. That makes Thomas Friedman atomic for our times and it is my pleasure and honor to yield the floor to the great Thomas Friedman. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. It is great to do a neighborhood concert. This is fantastic. Thank you, we are in a golden age of journalism as regards to newspapers, the New York Times and washington post. We are going at it every day. One of the people centrally responsible for that golden age is marty baron and it is an honor to be introduced by him. And if you would silence your cell phones or put them on stun i will be forever grateful. Thank you for being late an optimists guide to thriving in the age of accelerations. First question i always get from people when they hear the title is where from comes the title . Thank you for being late an optimists guide to thriving in the age of accelerations . It comes from meeting people in washington dc, for breakfast. I like to not waste breakfast eating alone, i like to learn from someone so i organize business breakfasts and every once in a while someone comes 10 or 15 minutes late. Sorry for the weather, traffic was so busy, and one day over three years ago my friends, and energy entrepreneur, came at the usual time, very sorry, the weather, the traffic, the subway, and i spontaneously said to him, actually, peter, thank you for being late. Because you were late, i have been eavesdropping on their conversation. Fascinating. I have been people watching the lobby. Fantastic. And best of all, best of all, i just connected two ideas i have been struggling with for a month. So thank you for being late. People started to get into it. They say you are welcome. Because they understood i was giving them permission to pause, slow down, reflect. My favorite quote from the book is from my teacher, when you press the pause button on a computer it stops. When you press the pause button on the human being, it starts. That is when it starts to reflect, reef and reimagine. Dont we need to do a lot of that . This book was triggered when i pause and engaged with someone i wouldnt normally engage with. I live in bethesda with my wife, once a week i take subway to work. That means driving from my home on bradley boulevard to bethesda hyatt in the Public Parking garage and take the red line into dc to the New York Times office not far from the white house. Three years ago i did that, parked my car, spend the day at the office, kicked the redline back, drove to the cashier, looked at it, and said i know who you are. Great. I read your column. I said great. He said i dont always agree. Get me out of here. I actually said that is good. It means you always have to check. I drove off thinking he reads my column. A week later i took my weekly trip to dc by subway, parking garage, redline, office, redline back, parking garage, car, timestamp tickets, cashiers booth, same guy is there. This time he says Thomas Friedman, i have my own blog, would you read my blog . I thought oh my god, the parking guy is now my competitor . What just happened . I said write it down and i will look it up. He tore out a piece of receipt paper and wrote on it, i got home, i fooled it up on my computer, turns out he is ethiopian and was writing about ethiopian politics from the perspective of a Democracy Advocate and it was pretty good, a pretty good blog. I thought about him for a few days and eventually concluded this was a sign from god that i should pause and engage this guy. The only way i could do it was park in the parking garage every day. That took three or four days. They opened at 7 00, i parked under the gate, got out of my car and said i would like your email, i would like to send you a message, which he gladly gave me and that night we began an email exchange, most of them are in the front of the book, kind of funny. Basically i said to him in essence i have a proposition for you. I will teach you how to write a column for the New York Times if you will tell me your life story and he basically said i fear proposing a deal, i like this deal. He asked that we meet near his office in bethesda across from the highest, send me a gift certificate, putting them in the book, which we did two weeks later. I came with 6 page memo on how to write a column and he came with his life story. His life story, and economics grad in addis ababa, a political activist, Democracy Advocate, his democracy activism earned him a 1way ticket out of ethiopia and we welcomed him here in our country as a political exile, yes, we did that. [applause] he told me he was blogging on different websites but they wouldnt turn his stuff around fast enough so he decided to start his own blog and now Thomas Friedman, i feel empowered. He is read in 30 different countries. He is a wonderful man. Anyone today can participate in the global conversation and he taught me so much about that in his own country, ethiopia. I just presented him with a 6 page memo on how to write home. The world is a big data problem, this is my algorithm, how i cut through it and i thought about some of this before but never put it together until i did it in a memo for you. Basically explained to him that a news story is meant to inform and it can do so better or worse, the post tomorrow will write a story about this festival and marty will tell them what they did better or worse. I never connected those things more life, this happened four times a year. Mr. Freeman, you said exactly how i felt, god bless you. I want to kill you dead, you and all your offspring, i get that. Thats usually heat and light also, okay. Actually required a Chemical Reaction and you had to combine three chemicals, the first is what is your value sets, what is the set of ideas, principles. What set of values . Second, how do you think the Machine Works . So the machine is my shorthand, what is the biggest shaping our things in more places in more ways in more days. Im always in my head in working theory of how they look, why, im trying to take values and push in their direction and if i dont know how the Machine Works, i wont push it, i will push nit the wrong direction. My books have been inspiration on how the Machine Works. Lastly, what did you learn about people and culture, how the machine affects different people and culture and how they come back and effect the machine no column without people and no people without culture. Stir those three together, mix it up, bake for 45 minutes and if you do it right, you will produce a column that produce heat or light. Well, the more i engage on this, we had three sessions at coffee house in and several emails in between, the more i step back and to say to anne wolf, thats what a column is about, what is my value set . Those of you read me know that i have a rather corky set of values, im not quite a libertarian, im certainly not a conservative. My values emerge from the Comal Community i grew up with in minnesota in the 1950s, 60s and 70s at a time in place where politics works. And that had a huge impact on me. How do i think the Machine Works today and what have i learned of people and culture . I decided that was the book i wanted to write. How the Machine Works and the second half is about how this machine today is not just changing your world, its reshaping your world and its reshaping the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics and communities. Let me try to give you a quick runthrough. How does the machine work today . Well, i think what its shaping more things and more places in more ways and more days its the fact that we are in the middle of three nonlinear federations all at the same time with the three largest forces on the planet which i call the markets, Mother Nature and more blog. And i should tell you that i mix the three together for a reason. One of my teachers in this book, lynn wells, something hes really taught me which is i think is essential to doing proper journalism today, is never think in the box and never think out of the box. Today you must think without a box. Okay, you need to be melding all of these Different Things together and in my case, they are the market Mother Nature. So market for me is leadership globalization. Digital globalization, through facebook or amazon or google or twitter or paypal, if you put that, it looks like a giant hockey stick. Mother nature for me is Climate Change by law and population growth in the developing world. You put that on the grass, it looks like a hockey stick. Slide up hire for a second, coin by gordon, the cofounder of intel in 1965, gordon moore positive that the speed and power of microchips would double every 24 months and the price would stay roughly the same. Moores law has held up for 52 years and it is the enginedriving all technological change today because moores law drives globalization and more drives more Climate Change. Now, about once a year for the last 52 years, someone has written an article, moore law is over. For 52 years what they all have in common is they were all wrong. Moores law is alive and well, not 30 months but your computer at home now is probably operating on an intel work course chip and has 37. 5 million transittors, intel introduced 10millimeter chips, it would have a hundred million transistors, selfdriving car that contain it is brain contains the brain of that car. Wait till the end of the year. 1971 volkswagen beetle, what would it be like today . That 1971bw beetle would go 300 miles an hour and would cost 4 cents. Youll be able to drive your entire life on one tank of gas. Thats the power of the technological exponential now driving our lives. What the hell happened in 2007, what the hell happened in 2007 . What is this guy talking about, 2007. Here is what happened in 2007, the year was kicked off in january of 2007 when one steve jobs introduced this, the first iphone at the Masonic Center in San Francisco beginning a process halfway throughputting into one of these putting into the hands of half now every one on the planet. That is a handheld computer with more compute power in it than the apollo station that doubles, thats how the year began. In 2007, a Company Called facebook which had been confined to high schools and universities in late 2006 opened platform to anyone with a registered email address and in 2007, facebook went global. In 2007 a Company Called twitter split off on its own independent platform and went global. In 2007, the most Important Software you may have never heard of called adupe name after the sons toy elephant, enables the Million Computers to Work Together as if they are one seamlessly, thats big data now. Its based on two algorithms, but as the founder, explains in the book, sends us letters back home. And what google did was leave a trail to open Software Community and dupe its a public version of it, there isnt a Major Company in washington, d. C. That isnt somewhere in the background running duke. The second most Important Software call the viemware, enables any operating system to work on any computer, you are use today that now but that was unique back then and thats what enabled cloud computing, we have all the commodities and we can run operating system on them. In 2007 a company, the worlds now largest depository opened its doors. In this in 2007 google bought algorithm into the wild called android. In 2007, jeff bezos introduced the worlds first ebook reader called the kindle and in 2007ibm started the worlds first cognitive computer called watson, in 2007 three designed students in San Francisco were attending the Design Conference that year and noticed all hotels were sold out but one of them had three spare mattresses and they decide today rent them out to people who couldnt get hotels and it worked out so well in 2007 they started a company airbnb, thats why its called airbnb because of the three mattresses. In 2007, the internet cost a billion users for the first scaled in 2007. Here is what happened in 2007, graph of sequencing a human genome. For those in the back, in 2001 it cost us a 100 million in sequence a human genome, fell to 10 million and then youll notice in one year it goes over a cliff like ekg heading for a heart attack, that year is 2007. The price of sequencing a human gene collapses to 10,000. In 2007, solar energy took off as process for extracting natural gas from tight shell called fracking, between 2006 and 2008 americas total natural reserve increased 35 . That is a spectacular number in 2007. A graph of what social networks look like, thats actually the cost of generating a mega bit of data, youll notice the line goes straight down in, what year is that, 2007. And in the blue line is the speed of transmitting that data, youll notice the two lines crossed in 2007, close enough for government work, all right. Oh, yeah, i forgot the cloud. It was born in 2007. First year statistic show up in 2008. In 2007 intel for the first time went to extend moores law into its microchip, in 2007 mike dell, founder of Dell Computers retired and in 2007 he decided he better come back to work. Turns out, 2007 maybe understood in time as surely one of the greatest technological Inflection Points. Someone was alive when glutenberg invented the printing press. Now, that is really cool, okay. [laughter] i dont have to write all the bibles anymore, we can snap them out, i think you were alive at a similar Inflection Point in 2007, unfortunately we all completely missed it. Why . Because of 2007. Right when your physical technologies just took off like we were on a moving sidewalk on an airport 5 to 50 miles an hour, right when that happened, all of our social technology, the regulatory form, the political reform, the manager reform, the learning reform, youd wanting to with it, all completely froze because we entered the deepest recession since 1929 and in that dislocation, you cannot understand whats going on if you dont understand that dysfunction. So what happened in 2007 . Well, i argue what happened is your computer processor chip, has a storage chip, got networkingand all five were in moores law. What happened in 2007 is that all melded together in this thing we call the cloud. The cloud. I never used the term the cloud in my book. So cudly, sounds like a mitchell song. Ive looked at clouds. This aint no cloud, folks. What i called in the book is the super nova. Those of you who are science fans know the super nova is actually the Largest Energy force in nature. Its the explosion of a star. What happened in 2007 the release of energy of men and women in the likes we have never seen before and overnight changed four kinds of power, first it changed the power of one, what one person can make as a maker or breaker is amplify today a degree we have never seen before. We have a president who can sit in his pajamas in the west wing and tweet to a billion people directly without an editor, a liable lawyer and filter. [laughter] [applause] but here is whats really scary, isis can do the exact same thing from his bunker in raqqah province in syria. Th