The central reason is that its home to outstanding journalists. A standout among them is tom friedman massachusetts you may now you may have noticed that theres a photo that purports to be tom freidman. Tom spent his life getting out into the world doing thorough research and people to people in every station of walk and every walk of life and around the i planet. The result is something quite different from the cynicism and aggression acquired in universe. What we get instead is a pair of rarities and they are the products of reporting and reflection themselves all too rare. Those qualities can be found in toms press bestselling books and you can find them again in toms latest, thank you for being late, optimist guy to thrive in anal of acceleration. When the former aide or the of economist wrote his review of toms book for the New York Times he rightly observed it is hard to think of any other journalist who has explained as many complicated subjects to so many people. Among the central subjects tom explains the ever more exhausting technological change. There has to be many of you who like me wonder whether they can keep up with the new technology we encounter every day and wonder too what the endlessly revolutions of technology will signify for workers and kids and the entire human race. Tom explains why and how technology is changing with such speed, why things are going to get faster still and where all this appears to be taking us. Now, when tom tells us that things will get faster and reminds us while there are 10 billion things connected to the internet that still less than 1 of possible total, you well may suffer the anxiety that this book aims to cure but tom lets us know that its going to be okay, youll be hearing from an optimist and lets see if he can make optimist all of you. Then the Global Markets that move with astounding speed and adaptability and finally and t importantly climate change. We can use those words here, by the way. [laughter] [applause] bloomberg calls toms book honest cohesive explanation for why the world is the way it is without miracle cures or scapegoats, the Financial Times and review notes that tom offers sensible solutions but, quote, does not offer easyysolu sloganfriendly ideas. So imagine that, someone has proposed ways to confront the challenges of our World Without slogans and miracle cures and without scapegoats. That makes tom friedman atomic for our times and its my pleasure and honor to yield the floor to tom friedman. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Wow, its great to do a neighborhood concert. This is fantastic. Marty, thank you, we are in a golden anal of journalism, the New York Times and the washington post. We are going at it every day. [applause] and one of the people centrally responsible is marty baron and its an honor to be introduced by him. If you would silence your cell phones i will be forever grateful. Thank you for being late, optimist guy thriving in the age of acceleration. The first question that i get from people is where from comes the title, thank you for being late, it comes from meeting people in washington, d. C. S i live in batesda. I like organize business breakfast and every once in a while someone comes 10 or 15 maints late. One day, over three years ago, now, my friend the Energy Entrepreneur and i said,we actually, peter, thank you for being here late. Because you were late ive been eavesdropping on their conversation, fascinating. Their [laughter] people watching the lobby, fantastic. And best of all, best of all, i just connected two ideas i had been struggling for a month so thank you for being late. People started to get into it. They said, well, you welcome because they understood. I was actually giving permission to pause. Slow down, to reflect. My favorite quote from the book is from my teacher and friend who says, when you press the pause button on a computer, it stops when you press the pause button on a human, it starts, thats when it starts to reflect, rethink and reimagine and, boy, dont we need to do a lot of that now. This book actually was triggered when i paused and engaged with somebody i wouldnt normally engage with. . As i said i live in bethesda, maryland with my wife and once a week i take the subway to work and that means driving and i park in the basement of the bethesda and take down to New York Times office not far from the white house and three years ago i did that, i parked my car, took the red line in, took the red line back, tiempstamp ticket, drove to cashiers booth. Ok he looked at it and said, i know who you are. I said, great. I dont always agree. Get me out of here. You always have to check. Its great, the parking guy reads my column. Weeks later i took my weeklyly trip into dc by subway, parking garage, red line, office, red line back, parking garage, car, timestamp ticket, cashiers booth, same guy is there. This time he says, mr. 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 what happened . I said, write it down and he tore a piece of receipt paper. I got home and told anne and turned out hes et opian. Was writing about et opian politics from the perspective of the people, a real Democracy Advocate and he was pretty good. I should pause and engage with this guy. The only way i could do is park in the parking garage every day. That took three or four days, i dont remember how long anymore. I parked under the gate. I couldnt come down. I got out of my car and i said, i would like your email, i would like to send you a message which he gladly gave me. We began an email exchange. I basically 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 see your proposing a deal, i like this deal. [laughter] he asked that we meet near his office out in bethesda across from the hyatt. He sent me a Gift Certificate for putting him in the book. I came with a sixpage memo and he came with his life story. His life story is economist grad from university, was a politicay activists, Democracy Advocate, l democracy activism earned him a oneway ticket out of ethiopia, we welcomed him here as political exile, yes, we did that. [applause] 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. Illuminating something for you and if i really do it well i do both and create heat and light and a reaction and i can tell if ive created heat or light by the reaction i get from readers. I didnt know that. Thats a good reaction. You created some light. Some might say, i never looked at it that way. Thats a good reaction. I never connected those things. More light. You live through this as a column. This happens four times a year. Mr. Friedman you said exactly how i felt that i didnt know how to say, god bless you. I want to kill you dead, you and your offspring. I get that. But i explained to him to produce heat and light actually required a Chemical Reaction and you had to combine threeou chemicals, the first is what is your value sets, what is the set of ideas, values and principlesp are you promoting, are you communist, liberal, what are the set of values that youre pushing . Second, how do you think the Machine Works . The machine is my shorthand, i what are the Biggest Forces shaping more things in more places in more ways in more days . As columnist im always carrying around in my head a working theory of how they work. Why, im trying to take values and push machines in their direction. If i dont know how the Machine Works ui either wont push it or i will push it in the wrong direction and in many ways all my books have been an exploration about how the Machine Works. Lastly, what did you learn about people and culture, how they come back and affect the machine. Theres no column without people and no people without culture. Let it rise, bake for 45 minutes and if you do it right, you will produce a column that produces heat or light. Well, the more i engage on this, we had three sessions at coffee house and several emails in between, the more i step back and i say to him, thats what a column is about, whats my value set . Those of you who read me know that i have a rather corky set of values, im not quite a liberal and im certainly not a conservative because my values emerged from my community that i lived in minnesota in 1950s, 60s, 70s. How do i think the Machine Works today and what if i learned about people and culture and i decided, that was the book i wanted to write. And thats what thank you for being late is all about. First half is about 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 five realms in particular, the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics and communities. S, so 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 is theay 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 market, Mother Nature and morse law. I should tell you that i mix theres 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 and morris law. The market for me is digital globalization, not your grandfathers globalization that was containers on ships, trains, if you charge that today, flat going down. Digital globalization, the way everything is being digitize, whether facebook, amazon, google, paypal, if you put that in a craft, looks like a giant hockey stick. Mother nature for me is climaten change, population growth in the developing world. You put that on a grass, it looks like a hockey stick. And morris law, first flight slide up here for a second, gordon, cofounder of intel in 1965, gordon positive that the speed would double every 24 months and the price would stay roughly the same. Moores law has held for 58 years and its the engine driving all technological change today because moores law drives more globalization and drives more climate change. About once a year for the last 52 years someone has written an article saying moores law is over, its going to run out and for 52 years what they all have in common is they were all wrong. Moores law is alive and well. Its now about 30 months, your computer at home now is probably operating on an intel work course chip. It has 37. 5 million transistors. It will have 100 million transistors per square mill millmeter. Difference between a selfdriving car that contains the brains of the car so it can drive itself and selfdriving car that needs a box under the seat. If you think the world is fast now, wait till the end of the year. 1971 volkswagen beetle, what would it be like today . That it 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. The power can be a maker or a breaker is fundamentally changed. The power of machines have changed. Machines are acquiring all five senses. We have never lived in a world where machines had all five senses. And as resul