Be one of the initiatives, getting money about getting money out of the process is a difficult challenge. If we can do three or four things to bring our democracy back to life and help us make good decisions again. How can i turn you down . Vice president , thank you for your time. I think saving our planet is priority 1, 2 and three. And its going to define Nations Defense policies, form policies, and economic policies. You speak without notes. You speak with passion. And you show no resentment what this country did to you. Its time for you to run for the office again. Why wouldnt you run for the country if you want to save the planet . First of all, thank you for the sentiment. And even though ive said this before, forgive me for repeating it. I am a recovering politician now. And the longer i go without a relapse, the less likely one becomes. So i would say it is not likely. But i appreciate the sentiment very much, truly. Thank you. That was a great question to end on. Thank you all. [applause] thomasas freedom men friedman talks about advances in technology and how society can a depth to such changes. It is the subject of his new late. Hank you for being this is 40 minutes. [applause] tom thank you. Great to be here this morning. What a treat. Im going to try to in 20 minutes summarize the book you have next to you. My latest book came out called thank you for being late. And optimist guide to thriving in the age of acceleration. First question people have is where from the title, thank you for being late . That comes from meeting people asdy this morning in washington, d. C. , over the years for breakfast. I dont like to waste breakfast eating alone when i can learn from someone. Once in a while someone will show up, tom, im soarry, weather, traffic, subway, dog eight the homework. One morning i spontaneously said to one of them, ray, thank you for being late. Because you were late i have actually been eavesdropping on their conversations. I have been people watching in the lobby. Fantastic. Most importantly i just connected two ideas he been struggling for months. Thank you for being late. People started to get into it. They say, well, youre welcome. As they understood i was giving them permission to pause, to slow down, to reflect. One of my favorite quotes in the first chapter of the book is is from my friend who says, when you press the pause button on a computer, it stops. But when you press the pause button on the human being, it starts. It starts to reflect. Rethink, and reimagine. I think we have a lot of that to do right now. Now, the book was actually inspired because i paused to engage with someone who i normally wouldnt have. I live in bethesda, maryland. I take the subway to work. About once a week. About three years ago i did that. I drive to the bethesda hiatt, park in the Public Parking garage, and i take the red line into d. C. I did that three years ago. Worked, get my car. Time stamp ticket. Got to the booth and the ticket, looks at it and looks at me and says i know who you are. Great. He said i read your column. I said great. I said i dont always agree. I thought, get me out of here. But i said, well, that means you have to check. And i drove off. A week later took my weekly drip tripp into d. C. , back, car, time stamp ticket. Cashiers booth. Same guy. 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 happened . I said write it down for me. He wrote it down. On a piece of receipt. I went home. He was ethiopian. Wrote about ethiopian politics. I thought about him, and said this is a sign from god. I should actually pause and interact with this guy. But i didnt have his email. The only way i could do it was park in the parking garage every day. I did that for four days. We finally overlapped again in the morning. I stopped my car in the gate. I said i have your email. I had his name. He happily gave it to me. That night i sent him an email. I repeat all the Emails Exchange in the front of the book. Funny. I said i have a proposition for you. I will teach you how to write a column if you will tell me your life story. And he basically said, i see you are proposing a deal. Like this deal. So he asked that we meet at peetes coffeehouse in bethesda near his office. And we did that two weeks later. I presented him with a sixpage memo how to write a column. First time i put it all together in this way. Told me his life story. Ill leave his story aside. You can read it in the book. What i explained in my memo is that a news story is meant to inform. It can do so better or worse. Like a news story about this event. A column is meant to provoke. Im either in the heating business or the lighting business. Thats what i do. I either do heating or lighting. Its stoking up an emotion or illuminating something four, i dealy if do i both together, will i produce one of several reactions that tell me i produce heat or light. Read my column and say i didnt know that, i never looked at it that way, i never connected those things. Your favorite, live for, this you said exactly what i felt didnt know how to say. God bless you. I want to kill you dead, you and all your off spring. Any of those will tell me that i produced heat or light. But to do that requires actually a chemical reaction. You have to gin three compounds. The first is what is your value set . What is the world view you are trying trocomprow moat. Communist, capitalist, neocon, keynesian, libertarian . Second, how do you think the Machine Works . The machine is my shorthand, but what are the Biggest Forces shaping more things and more places in more ways and more days . Im always carrying around in my head a working hypothesiscy of how the Machine Works. Once i call the lexus neurology. The this book is about the latest iteration. What im trying to do as a columnist take my value set and push that machine. If i dont know how it works or wont push it or push it in the wrong direction. Lastly, ray alluded to this, what have you learned about the people and culture . There is no column without people. The people in culture affects the machine or vice versa. Mix those together. Stir, let it rise for 45 minutes and bake. If you do it right youll produce a column that produces emotions. I had three sessions at the coffeehouse explaining this to him three years ago. By the end i started to say to my wife and myself, whats my value set . Im not really republican or democrat. Im very eclectic in my views. Where did it come from . How do i think the Machine Works today, and what have i learned about people . I decided that was the book i wanted to write. Thats the book you have next to you. So let me just focus on one aspect of it. How i think the Machine Works because thats the fly wheel thats driving everything. I think that whats shaping more things in more places in more ways on more days is were currently in the middle of three, 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. Moores law, microchips will double every 24 months. Now its closer to 30. Never mind. Thats an exponential that has actually held up for over 50 years. If you put it on a graph, looks like a hockey stick. Mother nature for me is Climate Change, biodiversity, population, put it on a graph, like like a hockey stick. The market is digital globalization. Not your grandfathers globalization. Not containers on ships, thats going down. But what is exploding is the fact that everything is now being digitized and globalized through twitter, facebook, pay pal, instagram. Put it on a graph it looks like a hockey stick. Were in the middle of three hockey stick accelerations all at the same time in the three Largest Forces on the planet and they are interacting with one another. More moores law drives globalization which drives Climate Change and solutions. The argument of the book is these accelerations isnt just changing your world of the its fundamentally reshaping it. Its reshaping five rellments. Politics, your politics, ethics. The workplace. And community. First part of the book is about the he acceleration. Second part is about the reshaping. Let me just talk quickly about this fly wheel, the one ray alluded to, in technology. My chapter on this is called, what the hell happened in 2007 . 2007. Thats an innocuous year. What is this guy talking about . Heres what happened in 2007. 2007, san francisco, steve jobs introduced the iphone. He set us on a path putting a han held enabled computer in the hand of every person on the planet. Thats not all that happened in 2007. 2007, facebook came out of high schools and universities and made available to anyone with an email address. It went global. Late, 2006. In 2007, a Company Called twitter, which was founded in 2006, went global. 2007, the most Important Software youve never heard of called hadu, which basically has formed the basis for big data, enabling a Million Computers to work as one computer, opened its doors and launched its software. In twetch, the second most Important Company you never heard of, bithub opened its doors. Now the Worlds Largest repository of open Source Software and growing at incredible clip. In 2007, google, put out a new operating system called android. 2007, going thele bought a Company Called youtube. In 2007, jeff came out with something called the kindle. In 2007, i. B. M. Started a cognitive computer called watson. In 2005, michael dell retired. He had enough. In 2007, he came back to work. He realized what had happened around him. Ever seen a graph of the cost of sequencing a human genome . Sorry, go back one. There it is. Heres a graph of the starts at 100 million in 2001. The sequence one human genome. You notice a waterfall there . In 2007, the price begins to collapse and take us toward basically 1,200. From 100 million. 2007 was the pivotal year. 2007 the growth of solar power begins. 2007 also we saw the first emergence of a process called fracking. The combination of big data enabled that. This is the cost of generating megabit of data antispeed with which we can actually transmit it. This is the foundation of social networking. Notice when the lines cross. Right around 2008. The price collapse and the speed took off right arent 2008. This is moores law. This is called computing. Lets see, when did cog computing start . Well, the first time we detect is in 2008. Norneds, it started in 2007. What happened in 2007, friends, i think will be understood in times as the influction point since the Printing Press and we completely missed it because of 2008. What happened in 2007 is our physical technologies just took off like we were on a moving sidewalk in an airport that suddenly went from 5,000 mileanhour to 50 miles an hour. We literally felt the ground moving from our feet and 2008 happened and all the social technologies we needed to go along with the learning, the adaptive mechanisms, the management systems, the regulation and deregulation all froze and weve been living in that area. This is one who runs google x just did on the back of an i. B. M. And it describes in brief where we are. The blue line is the average rate in which societies and human beings adapt to human change over time. It has a positive slope but its gradual. The white line is technology. Lets call that moores law. If you lived in the 11th century or 12th century, life really didnt change. But then we got galileo and copurnicus and said we are here. We are at a point where technology is evolving faster than the average human being and society can adapt. Our challenge . This is what politics is going to be about, is that dotted line. How do we learn faster and govern smarter in order to get more people at the rate of change of technology to be able to adapt . What actually happened between 2000 and 2007 was this. Around the year 2000 there was a massive price collapse in the price of connectivity. It happened to do with the dotcom boom and bust. We made connectivity basically free. Because we collapsed the price of fiberoptic cabe. And i came along at that point and wrote a book about it. Its called the world is flat. I said, wow, i can now touch people i never touched before and i can be touched by people who never touched me before. What happened in 2007 was another price collapse. It was in the price of compute and storage, by being able to link all these computers together to be able to operate as one. And what that did is made complexity. Think about what it was to get a taxi five years ago and what is today on your cell phone. With one touch you can get a taxi, pay the taxi, direct the taxi and rate the taxi. All that complexity has been davegbavekly abstracted away and reduced basically be a tracted away and reduced to touch. Thats happening everywhere in the economy. We are putting greece into everything by making complexity free and by making everything lighter and everything to move. Now, when you make keck connectivity fast, free and easy to use and you make complexity fast, free, easy for you and invisible and you put them two together, you have the cloud. But i never use the term cloud in my book. Dont like that word because it sounds so soft, so cuddle cuddley, so fluffy. Sounds like a joany mitchell song. music i looked at clouds from both sides music this aint no cloud, folks. This is a supernova. Its the Largest Force of nature. Its the explosion of a star, only this is an everaccelerating supernova and its the Energy Source driving everything. Where did you want to build your town in the middle ages . You wanted to build them on the river. Why . Because that river gave you power, transportation, food and ideas. You wanted to build your town on the amazon. Where do you want to build your town today . On amazon. Com. You want to build it on this cloud which is now the Energy Source for all of these things. And what this Energy Source has done in a very rapid succession has changed four kinds of power. It changed the power of one while what one person can do now, make things or break things. We have a president elect that sits in his pent house and on his cell phone communicates with literally billions of people at any second he feels like it. Its changed the power of machines. Machines can now think. Theyre basically all five senses. Its changing the power of ideas. Ideas now flow at a rate weve never seen before. Five years ago barack obama said marriage was between a man and a woman. Today barack obama said marriage is between any two human beings who loves one another and hes following ireland in that position. Ideas now flow and melt away at a rate weve never seen before. And lastly its changed the power of many. We as a collective are now a force of innature. In fact, we have a geophysical era being named after us, the anthrops. The argument of my book is this is not just reshaping things, its not changing things, its reshaping things. Its reshaping these five realms. Let me talk briefly about two of them. My chapter on the workplace, how its being reshaped, because i know its central to all of you is called how we turn a. I. Into i. A. How do we take Artificial Intelligence and turn it into intelligent assistance, ance, intelligent ancs. So my example of intelligent assistance is i profile the Human Resources department at at t. At t, 360,000 employees. They live next to the supernova. They feel its heat every day. Their Human Resources department pretty good chance what theyre doing is going to come to a company near you. Heres what they do. Randall stevenson, their c. E. O. , begins with a speech transparent how he sees the world, what businesses they will be in and what skills at t employees are going to need. Then they put every at t employee on their own inhouse system. And they look at it and they say, tom, can you you got 10 seven of the 10 skills you need to thrive here at at t but 9 thrive here at at t but youre missing three. Then they partner with sebastian from wadacity to create in an owe degrees for all 10 of those skills and they say well give you up to 8500 to take the classes for the skill sets youre missing with one condition. You have to take them on your own time. Our bargain with you is if you take those courses when these jobs open youll get the first crack at them. We wont go outside. If youre not interested, if you climbed up one too many telephone poles, we have a wonderful searches package for you but you wont be working at at t. Their social contract with their employees, which i think is the social contract coming to a neighborhood near you, is you can be a lifelong employee at at t but only if youre a lifelong learn er and that is the new social comm. Alluding to what the secretary of commerce said, this is hard for people. Now will now be more on. Now will now be on you and thats why selfmotivation, grit will be so much more important. Intelligent assistant, qualcomm, another company, they made a cell phone. Qualcomm has a campus in san diego. They have 64 buildings. Two years ago they wired, they put sensors on every building, every door, window, hvac system, computer, sink, faucet. They have sensors on everything. They beam all that data up to the cloud and they beam it down on a dash board to their janitors who now walk around with an intelligent assistant. They know if you left your computer on, they know if they left your door open, they know if you set the temperature too high. Swipe down is where the maintenance can be found and the whole repair manual. Their janitors now give tours to foreign visitors. They are maintenance technologists with an intelligent assistant, theyve been able to live above the line. Intelligent algorithm, thats the partnership between the College Board and conn academy. So you all look roughly my age. Im 63. Some older, some younger. 11th grade, psat exam and then the sat. You went out and hired a tutor because you were not sure your kid could get into college and at 200 a crack you had to pay some knuckle head to help your kid in algebra and calculus and writing. If you are from a disadvantaged family or neighborhood you are computely behind the 8ball. They partnered to develop a program for fr