Program this purports to be tom friedman. [laughing] tom ace young but it still looks like hes accelerating in reverse in that photo. Tom has spent his life getting out into the world doing the research and speaking to people and every station of life, in every walk of life, and around the planet. The result is something quite different from the cynicism and snark and aggression we encounters often today in todays media universe. What we get instead is a pair of rarities, insight and wisdom. They are the products of real reporting and serious reflection. A themselves, all too rare. Those qualities can be found in his previous bestselling books and youes can find them again in toms latest. Thank you bring late. When the editor in chief of bloomberg and the former editor of the economist wrote his review of his 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 that is the ever more exhausting pace of technological change. There have to be many of you who, like me, wonder whether they can keep up with the rush of the new and technology we encounter every day. And wonder what the seemingly endless revolutions that technology will signify for workers and kids and the entire human race. Tom explained why and how technology is changing with such speed, why things are going to get fasterra still, and were all this appears to be taking us. When tom tells us things will get faster, and reminds us that while there are at least 10 billion things connect to the internet that is still less than 1 of thehe possible total, you will may suffer the anxiety that this book aims to cure. But time lets us know its going to be okay. You will be hearing from an optimist. And lets see if you can make optimists of all of you. Then there are the other great forces tom addresses, the Global Markets which move with astounding speed andnd adaptability, and finally and importantly, Climate Change. We can use those words here by the way. [laughing] [applause] bloomberg called toms booking on his cohesive explanation for why the world is the way it is without miracle cures or statements. The Financial Times in its review notes that top offer sensible solution but, quote, does not offer easy, slogan from the ideas. So imagine that. Someone has proposed ways to confront the challenges of our World Without slogans, without miracle cures and without scapegoats. That makes tom friedman atomic for our times and it is my pleasure and honor to yield the floor to the great tom friedman. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Wow, its great to do a neighborhood concept. This is fantastic marty, thank you. We are in a golden age of journalism, at least as regards to newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Were going at it every day. [applause] and one of the people centrally responsible for that golden ages marty baron, and its an honor for me to introduce [applause] and if you would silentio cell phones with them on stun, i will be forever grateful. Thank you for being late, and optimist guide to thriving in the age of acceleration. First question i was get from people when youre the type of the book is where from, the title, thank you for being late . Becomes a meeting people in washington, d. C. I live in the face of it for breakfast i like to not waste breakfast went downtown eating alone. Like to learn from someone so ive been organizing business breakfast and influence a while someone comes tampa 50 minutes late. They say im really sorry, the weather, i the traffic. One day over three years ago now my friend peter, Energy Entrepreneur came to meeting and said, a few missing and said the user, im sorry, the weather, the traffic of us have, the dog ate my homework. I spontaneously said actually, peter, thank you for being late. Because you relate, i been eavesdropping on their conversation. [laughing] fascinating. Ive been people watching the lobby. Fantastic. And best of all, as the ball i just connected to ideas ive been struggling with for a month. So thank you forl, being late. People started to get into it. They say, youre welcome. [laughing] because i understood i was actually giving them permission to pause, slow down, to reflect. My favorite quote from the book is from my teacher and friend doug who said when you press the pause button on a computer it stops. But when you press the pause button on a human being, it starts. Thats when it starts to reflect, we think and reimagine. And boy, dont we need to do a lot of that now . [applause] this book actuallyee was trigged when i paused and engage with someone i would normally engage with. So as i said i live in bethesda, maryland, with my wife, and about once a a week i the subway to work. That means driving from her home on brandon boulevard to the bethesda high. I parked in the basement of the bethesda height in a Public Parking garage and a take the red line into d. C. , then to the New York Times office, not far from the white house. Three years ago now i did that. I parked my car, took the red light income spent the day at the office. Got in my car, time stamped ticket, drove to the caches become handed it to the cashier. He looked at it, looked at me and said i know who you are. I said great. He said, i read your column. I said great. Parking guy reads my column. He said i dont always agree. I thought get me out of here. I actually said thats good. Means you always have to check that. I drove off thinking great, working guy reads my column. A week later i took my weekly trip into d. C. By subway parking garage, redline, office, redline back, parking garage, car, timestamp ticket, cashiers booth, same guy is there. This time he says, mr. Friedman, i have my own blog, which you read my blog . I thought, oh my god, the parking guy is now my competitor . [laughing] what just happened next so i said right event and i will look it up. So he tore off a piece of receipt paper and he wrote on it. Got home. I told and, i called it up on my computer. Turns out he is ethiopian. Hes right about ethiopian politics from the perspective of a real democracy advocate, and it was pretty good, a pretty good blog. I thought about in a few days and i eventually concluded this was a sign from god, that i should pause and engage this guy. But i didnt have his email so the way i could get was parked in the parking garage every day. [laughing] so that took three or four days. I dont member how long anymore but we overlooked one morning at 7 a. M. I parked under the gate so it 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. And that night we begin any mail exchange. Most of them are in the front of the book, theyre kind of funny. But i basically said to him, in essence i have a proposition for you. I will teach you to write a column for the New York Times if you will tell me your life story. And he basically said i see youre proposing a deal. I like this deal. [laughing] so he askedin the we meet near s office out in bethesda at petes coffee house across from theed hyatt. Petes has sent me a Gift Certificate for putting them in the book. Which we did two weeks later. And they came with a sixpage memo on how to write a column, indicating with his life story. His life story is an economics grad, was a political activist, a democracy advocate, his democracy activism eventually earned him a oneway ticket out of ethiopia. We welcome here in our country as a political exile. Yes, we did that. And [applause] and he told me he was blocking on ethiopian websites but it wouldnt turn his stuff faster in. Couldnt turnbl his top arrest hatchets were eventually started his own blog and now mr. Friedman, i feel empowered. His google metrics, hes right in 30 different countries. My parking guy. Its a wonderful story. Hes a wonderful man. I felt anyone today can participate in the global conversation. And he taught me so much about that and about his own country, ethiopia. I didnt present him with a sixpage memo on how to write a column. So the world is a big data problem, this is my algorithm. This is how i go about cutting through it. I thought about some of this before but i never put together until i did it in the memo for him. I face explained that a new story is meant to inform and it can do so better or worse, the post to write a story about the festival and marty will tell them whether they get better or worse. But a call them, an opinion article is meant to provoke. Its is meant to produce a reac. So i am either initiating this is for the lighting business. Thats what i do. I made a doing a heating or lighting. Im either stoking up and emotion in you or 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 i create heat or light by the reaction i get from readers. Some might lead to call and set didnt know that. Thats a good reaction. You could supply. Some might say i never looked at it that way. Thats a good reaction. I never connected those things, more light. You say you live for this as a coldness, happened four times a year. Mr. Friedman, you said exactly what i felt. I didnt have to say. God bless you. God bless you. I want tond kill you dead and al your offspring. I get that. [laughing] that usually heat andly light also, okay . But i explained to you to produce heat and light, actually required a chemical reaction. Engine had to combine three chemicals. The first is what is your value set . What is the set of ideas, values and principles you are promoting in the world . Are you a communist, i suppercaseletter, a keynesian or marxist . What are the set about your pushing . Second, how do you think the Machine Works . So the machine is my shorthand. What is the biggest voice in shaping more things in more places in more ways in more days . As a columnist im always carrying around in my head the working theory of how the big gears and pulleys of the world work. Why . Because i try to take my values and push the machine in their direction. If ian dont have the Machine Works, i either wont push it or i will push it in the wrong direction. In many ways all my books have been an exploration about how the Machine Works. Lastly, what have you learned about people and culture, have the machine effects different people and culture, and how they come back and affect the machine . Theres no column without people and there are no people without culture. Stir with those three together, mix it up, let it rise, bake for 45 minutes and if you do it right you will produce a column that produces heat or light. The more i engaged with ayele of this, we hadad three sessions at petes coffee house and several emails in between, the more i step back and would say, thats what he called is about. Whats my value set . Those of you who read me know that i have quirky set of values. I im not a a liberal or conservative my values c emerge from the Small Community i grew up with in minnesota in the 1950s, 60s and 70s at a time and place where politics worked. And that had huge impact on me to this day. How do i think the Machine Works today and what have i learned about people and culture . And i decided that was the book i wantedd to write. Thats what thank you for being late is all about. The first that is about how the Machine Works, and the second half is about how this machine today is not just changing your world. Its reshaping our world, and its reshaping five rounds in particular, the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. So let me try to give you a quick run through. How does the machine work today . I think what is shaping more things and more places in more ways on more days is the fact that were in the middle of three nonlinear accelerations all at the same time with the three largest forces on the planet which i call the market, Mother Nature, and moores law. I should tell you that i mix these three together for a m reason. One of my teachers in this book, something usually taught me which is i think essential to doing proper journalism today, is never think in the box, and never think outofthebox here today you must think without a box, okay . You need to be melding all of these disparate things together, and in my case they are the market Mother Nature and moores law. So the market for meat is digital globalization, not your grandfathers globalization. That was contingent on ships, planes and trains. If you chart the today plastic going down. But digital globalization where everything is digitized and globalize, whether its facebook or amazon or google or twitter or paypal, if you put that on a crap it looks like looks like a giant hockey stick. Mother nature for me is Climate Change, population growth in the developing world. If you put that on a crap it looks like a hockey stick. And moores law, get the first slide up here for a second term coined by gordon or the cofounder of intel in 1965. Gordon moore said the speed and power of microchips would double roughly every 24 months, and the price would stay roughly the same. Moores law has held up for 52 years, and itr is the engine driving all technological change today. Because it tries more conversation which tries more Climate Change. Now, about once a a year for te last 52 years so what is 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 life and will, now about 30 30 months but your computer at m home now is how y operating on intel records ship thats a 14nanometer chip. It has 37. 5 million transistors per square millimeter. You cannot see them. At the end of 2017, intel will introduce its, under moores law, ten nm chip or it will 100 million transistors per square millimeter. I know thats very abstract, hard to conceive with the meter base of what it means is the difference between those two chips is the difference between a selfdriving car that needs the whole truck to contain the brains of the car so it can drive itself, and a selfdriving car that would just need a little box under the front seat. So if you think the world is fast now, wait until the end of the year. In fact, intels engineers want to try to explain the power of moores law. One setback said what if i 1971 Volkswagen Beetle had improved at the same rate microchips had . What would it be like today . And they calculated that the 1971 vw beetle today would go 300,000 miles an hour. It would get 2 million miles per gallon, and it would cost for sense. [laughing] youll be able too try that your entire life on one tank of gas. That is thee power of the technological exponential, now driving our lives. So my chapter though on moores law, im going to talk about that today, not the climate ad the market, my chapter is called what the hell happened in 2007 . What the hell happened in 2007 . Whats this guy talking about, 2007 . Heres what happened in 2007. Figure was kicked off in january of 2007 when one steve jobs introduced this, the first iphone at the muskogee center in San Francisco begin the process by which about halfway through putting one of these into thegh hands of virtually about halfway now, to edwin on the planet. La that is a handheld computer with more compute power in it than the Apollo Space Mission that doubles as a phone and a candid camera. Thats how the year began. But in 2007, a Company Called facebook which is been previously confined to high schools and universities in late 2006 opened a platform to anyone with a registered email address, and in 2007 facebook when global. In 2007 a Company Called twitter split off on his own independent platform and when global. In 2007 the most Important Software you may have never heard of named after the founders sons toy elephant, launched its algorithm into the wild. Is what enables the Link Computers to Work Together as if there one seamless thing. Thats will become big data now. Its based on two algorithms invented by google, but as the founder explains to be in the book, google lives in the future and since as letters back home. What google did was leave a trail of breadcrumbs to the open Source Software community of its algorithms. They reverse engineered it. There isnt a Major Company in washington, d. C. That isnt some in the background running that. In 2007 the second most Important Software you may have heard of called vm ware, works on any computer. You are used to that now but that was very unique back then and thats what enabled cloud computing. So we can all these commodities, Service Anyone can any operating system on that. In 2,007,007 a Company Called the worlds now largest repository openSource Software opened its doors. In 2007 this Company Called google bought a littleknown to the Company Called youtube. In 2007 google launched its own algorithm into the wild called android. In 2007 martys boss, jeff bezos can introduce the world first reader called the kindle. 2007 ibm started the worlds first cognitive computer called watson. In in 2007, three design studenn San Francisco retained in the Design Conference that year aton the notice all the hotel room for sold out. But one of them had free and her spare mattress and decide to rent them out, and it worked out so well in 2007 they started a Company Called airbnb. Thats what its called airbnb because of the three air mattresses. In 2007 the index crossed the billion users, l