Particular. And so i think what he offers to donald is someone who has ideas, without has a vision, who works tireilessly, but who at the end of the day knows he has his back. And i think that is why he has been able to so quickly and so you can sesfully. Rose tom friedman, Emily Jane Fox, Jonathan Mahler, when we continue. Funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose tom friedman is here, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, he is as you know a columnist for the New York Times. Is he known for tackling big ideas and wideranging subjects. He has a new book out which some are quawling his most ambitious yet. Imagine that. It is called thank you for being late, an optimist guide to thriving in the age of acceleration. In it he argues that todays world is moving faster than ever, and will only get faster. Im pleased to have tom friedman at this table. As always. Lets, so lets just start and talk about the book, first of all. Thawr for being late. Comes from meeting people for breakfast in washington d. C. Over the years, charlie, every once in a while someone comes 15, 20 minutes late and say tom, i was really sorry, the weather, the traffic, somebody was talking about homework. One day, about three years ago, i said to one of them, i think my friend peter corsell. I said to him, charlie, tallly, thank you for being late. Because were you late, i have been eavesdropping on their conversation. I have been people watching the lobby, fantastic. And most importantly i just connected two ideas hi been struggling with for a month. So thank you for being late. People started to get into it. They said well, youre welcome. But what they understood is i was giving myself and them permission to slow down, to rethink, to reflect. Pie favorite quote in the opening chapter comes if my friend doug sideman who says when you press the pause button on a computer, it stops. But when you press the pause button on a human being it starts. It starts to reflect, rethink, reimagine. And boy do we need to do a lot of that now in this age of acceleration. Rose so what is the age of acceleration. The book actually begins with me explaining to my parking garage attendant how to right a colume. The first chapter is about how to write a colume am if the world is big data set, this is my algorithm, so i say, a news story is meant to provoke, meant to inform, excuse me. Can i write about the show and inform better, you say okay, did you okay. A colume is different. An opinion piece t is meant to actually provoke. It is to produce a reaction. So how do you do that . Basically im either in the heating business or the lighting business. Im either stoaking an emotion or he lime naturing something for you, if i do both together then you really have got a colume, i think. To produce heat and light requires a chemical reaction. You have to combine, i think, three compounds. First is what is your value set. Are you a communist, a capitalistk a neo con, a neo liberal, libertarian, what are the values you are trying to proat. Second how do you think the Machine Works. The machine is my short hand for what is the Biggest Forces shaping more thins in more places in more ways and more i das. As a columnist im carry in my hids working theory of how the gears and pulleys of the world take. Im trying to take my value set and push the machine, if i dont know how to work it, i push it wrong or in the wrong direction. And lastly how the machine affects real people and cultures and how they affect the machine. Stir all those together, let it rise, bakemfor 45 minutes and if you do it right you will produce heat or light. The more i explain this to my parking garage attendance ant who is a blogger and really wanted to understand this, and this is how the book starts, the more i thought about well, what is my value set after all thesiers. Where did it come from. It actually came from the town in minnesota where i grew up. How do i think the Machine Works today and what have i learned about people and culture. I decided that is the book i wanted to write. So how i think the Machine Works today, what is shaping more things and more places and more ways and more days, i think were in the middle of three accelerations. Exponential in many ways, in the three largest forces on the planet which i call the market, Mother Nature and moores law. So moores law according to our friend gordon moore 50 plus years ago said the speed and power microchips will double every 24 montds, if you put it on a tbraf it looks like a hockey stick, a proxy for technology. The market for me is globalization but not your grandfathers globalization, not containers on shipsk digital globalization, facebook, twitter, pay pal, all things digitized and globalized. Put it on a graph, looks like a hockey stick, Mother Nature, Climate Change, by kro diversity loss, population, put it on a graph, looks like a hockey stick. I thinks in the middle of three hockey stick accelerations all at the same time with the three largest forces on the planet, the market, mothers nature and moores law and they are i think fundamentally reshaping it and reshaping politics, geo politics, they are reshaping the workplace, ethics and communities. So the first part of the book is about these accelerations. And the second part is how i reimagine, how i think we need to reimagine, give my crack on it, these different realms. Rose talking about speeding up, you point to 2007 in your colume yesterday. Yeah. Rose which was when you think about it. Phenomenal year. A phenomenal year. So well just stumbled on this as a wrote the book and looked around and realize that wow, what the hell happened in 2007. And in 2007 steve jobs came out with the iphone, he launched the smartphone revolution putting ace small handheld computer basically not only in the hands on its way to everyone on the plab etment but that wasnt all, that was just the beginning. Facebook in 2007 came out of high schools and universities and was open to anyone with an email address t went global. Twitter start inned 2006 but only went global in 2007. Hadoob. The software that noun one ever cleared heard of created the foundation for big data by enabling people to tie together a Million Computers and make them act as one. It did an open source way. Get hub the worlds Biggest Software repository started in 2007. Airbnb start inned 2007. The kindle, our friend jeff bezos came out with the kindle in 2007. Google came out with and and road in 2007. Im started in 2007. I have a graph in the book of the cost of sequencing a human genome, early 2,000, a hundred million dollars, then it goes like this and almost straight down waterfall, down to the bottom, what year was that, 2007. And in 2007 intel for the firs time went off sill i con, in the making of its microchip, introduced nonsill i con materials to extend moores law and the exponential kept going. Turns out that 2007 may be seen in time as one of the greatest technological inflection points ever. And we completely missed it because of 2008. Rose because of what happened in 2008 was we had the chnologys leapt ahead inesion 2007, and we all felt it, like we were on a movie sidewalk in a april that went from 5 miles an hour to 35 miles an hour. People felt like the tbrownd was moving under their feet. Right when that happened, politics really froaz. Yeah, it really, america gave us the tea party, the clash between them and obama. In 2008 it gave us obama. It did. But it gave us, he had two years to sort of do ingvar thises and ysical technologies move your. Ahead, the new learning, the new regulating, the new social adaptations, the new managerial systems, a lot of that got froaz and i think a lot of people goes dislocated in that process. With what consequences . Well, you know, if you think about people who drove this last election, we told, the White Working Class. And many noncollege educated but some college educated. So if you think about the history of the last 50 years, i have got a quote cuz the back part of the book is about growing up in minnesota where my value set came from. I have a quote from a congressman in minnesota who said you know, in minnesota, back in the 60s and 70s, if you were an average worker, you needed a plan to fail, okay. There was so much wind at our back. That we were Big Industrial economy, stood a stride the whole world. So many blue clar jobs. So that really sustained you know, sort of the less educated White Working Class. Then starting in the 80s up to the early 2 thousand, what really helped these people as the world went global was an acute expansion of credit. And mortgages. And everyones house value rose or many people who were homeowners. That was a way for them to ep coo up. Then what happens in 2007 2008. The home mortgages crash. So people lose all of this equity, and a lot of them from the White Working Classment at the same time in 2007, machines start to be able to do incredible things. So the work that they were able to do suddenly more and more of it starts to be taken by machines for both blue clar people and white clar people. All that happened under obamas presidency. And i think its a big part of this election. Because those people got hit from two directions. The recession took away the equity they had built up in their house which is a way for them to keep up. And then suddenly they went to work and there was a robot next to them who seemed to be studying their job. So all of these things, then the acceleration starts coming because the globalization of ideas happen. They go to the bathroom and if if someone of another gender, they go to the Grocery Store and there are many more imgranteds. And this is for a lot of complicated reasons. So if you think of the two things that anchor people in their lives, their community and their workplace, both of them really got disturbed in the last decade. And i think again this election is partly reflecting that. Rose are they right to blame globalization. Globalization is certainly part of it. There is no question. But. Rose even the president in europe said we have to rethink and think about and consider what modifications are necessary with respect to globalization and its impact. I think there is no question about that. But we also have to not ex age rate the impact of globalization relative to technology. The New York Times used to have a we used to have a receptionist in the washington bureau. We dont any more. We didnt replace her way mexican, we replaced her with a microchip, we have voice mail. So technology, moores law thing has been take sog many more jobs than globalization. There is certainly a part of the public though that it was hit by the expansion of trade, with china. Remember a lot of people were also benefited from it as well. Lets not forget that. But lets look at how all three of these accelerations work together. So last april i did a documentary for National Geographic for years of living dangerously. We went to sen he gal and we followed climate refugees from sen gal up through niejer, to the border of libya trying to get into europe. Rose the climate refugee. So these are people, what is happened in sennegal, the whole paris climate agreement was to prevent two degrees rise sent grade since the industrial revolution. Sennegal is already there. We they are heading for four degrees, okay. So what has happened is Climate Change has really hammered their agriculture, population growth then comes in, and now the land, the villages that are really the anchor for all of these communities in west africa. Rose cant support their demand. So we went to villages. They have no men, all the men from 18 to 60 are gone. They are on the road looking to get into europe. Then what comes along, so we go to niejer and we watch because every monday thousands of them gather for a caravan and they are all coordinated by whats app, okay. So now they are using the globalization thing. By the way, you come up to them and say metaphorically, what we have been saying, we will give a live aids concert in europe, they said no, no, we dont want no live aid concert. I got europe on my cell phone. Can i see it right here, this is the place i want to go and work. And my whatsapp guide, my human trafficker is promising to get me there. So you see all of these things coming together. Remember, weve been seeing this refugee problem in europe. But the vast majority, three out of four easily are from wers african. They are not from the middle east, okay. They are climate economic refugees, so what happens, they show up in europe, and people are then say wait a minute, i dont feel at home, suddenly there is all kinds of strangers around me. And the same, it happened there bigger than it has happened in america. But the amount of illegal immigration from latin america and mexico had a similar effect around america. So you have the climate pushing people north. Globalization is giving them the tools to come faster torque connect with each otherment and technology. And technology meanwhile is taking the job of the guy who is there, or he fears it is taking the job. So you put all three of, you got to see that all three are working together. So to me, to go back to your question, charlie, so what is the answer . You know. And cuz trump has promised these people he will take care of them. And here i will tell you, and i worked hard on this question in doing this book, i dont know what the answer is. Let me start there, with total humility. Heres what i learned in doing this book. I dont know what is sufficient to take care of all the White Working Class less educated in our country. A lot of people, brothers and sisters and neighbors, okay. So this is a serious que cuz if were open were going to get the signals first, be able to adapt. Pick off the best minds, to create jobs we never heard of and at the same time everyone has to get more educated. That, you know, those two things are the only way, and you know what i learned, i was at a conference with charlie rose last fall. Rose yes. And theres with a woman at this conference, dnt know if you remember, whose job was tack tagging sharks for twitter. Now who knew there was a job tagging sharks for twitter. And you come home from college, mom, dad i want to tag sharks for twitter. You cant be an optomistic mol guest. But who knew. If you keep it open, okay, are you going to get those jobs. By the way, she is going to need a massage at the end of the day, maybe someone to work on her house at the end of the day. So the worst thing we can do, charlie right now, is actually close up and tell people are you going to be okay. You dont have to, work hard or learn faster. Because that i cant change. None of us can change that. Rose let me talk about two other technological areas. One is Artificial Intelligence, the other is the cloud. And how they are relevant to what we are talking about in terms of this. The age of acceleration and how they will change the future. So the chapter on that, a chapter on the workplace, how we turn ai into ia. How do we turn Artificial Intelligence into intelligence assistance, a and c, assistants and intelligence algorithm rims, all so we can help the average worker compete and thrive in the age of acceleration. So the the storyir give of intelligence assistance, at t Human Resources department, which i profile in the book. So the way at t has been doing it is their c. E. O. Randall stefenson begins a year with a radically transparent speech, here is where we are going as a company, here is how i see the world, here are the skills are you going to need. Lets say. Rose here are the companies im going to buy. That too. But that is all part of it, the changing at t. Because its not your grandmas ma bell at all. So maybe they say there are ten skills you need to work in the eightate of the future. Then they put all their employees on a system and they got charley rose, charlie, you got seven of the ten skills, will you need at at t to thrive where we are going as a company. But you you are missing three. Then they partner with audacity Online University and got him to create nano degrees for all ten. Then they say we will pay up at least 8500 a year to take these courses for the skills you dont have, on one condition, you have to take them on your own time. If charlie rose says you know, i climbed up way too many telephone poles, i dont want to do this, they have a wonderful searches package for you but you wont be working at at t. So what are they saying to their employees it is a new bargain. The bargain is you can be a lifelong employee here. But only if are you a lifelong learner. And i think thats the social contract that is coming to the country. Rose contract of the future, you have to be a lifelong learner. You have to be a lifelong learner. If you do take those courses. Well pay for it but do it on your own time. The other side of that is you will get the first shotd at these jobs when they come, we wont go outside but if you do play by the new rules, we will honor our side to make sure you get a shot at these jobs. But i think that is a social contract that is coming to a neighbor hoodz near you. If are you ready to be a lifelong learner, you can be a lifelong employee. And. Because are you going to need new skills. And will you need them more often. And no one is kind of telling people that, charlie. That more will be on you. And everyone is coming along, hillary had her, you know, way of saying no problem for you. I will cut your taxes, i will give you free this or that, she was on to the education thing, definitely. Trump has his thing, i will take care of it all. But nobody is really having that frank conversation that if you are a lifelong learner you can be a lifelong employee, but that is the only way. Rose they dont quite know exactly how to connect the dots. It just is happening too fast. Rose supernova cloud. Before we leave ai wa, did you say to the you said what do you bring toy a chess match with a computer. That is a great story out of eric jolson, any mca fee s