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"the new york times" columnist thomas friedman. his new book is thank you for being late. and thank you so much. great honor to have you here today. talk about these accelerations. you say there are three. >> what is reshaping the world, not just changing the world, but reshaping politics, geopolitics, the community, is the fact we're in the middle of three vast accelerations at the same time in what i call the market, mother nature, and mother's law. the market is digital global zashz. not your grandfather's globalization, but facebook, twitter, paypal. moore's law is the microchips were doub...

I always love ticking off what's happened in the past decade. 2004, the permanent republican majority. karl rove said 2006, nancy pelosi, 2008, the obama revolution. around for a generation. two years latereri, the tea par. two years later, obama is re-ele re-elected. now trump destroys boat parties. it usually takes a generation for a party to take power. now it takes two years. >> i think what's going on in our politics is both parties are blowing up. >> seeing the end of the parties. >> and the reason is these parties were formed rnd the industrial revolution, the new deal, early i.t. revol...

I'm not guess you. i understand where you're coming from. >> you see where this could happen? very much so. i was afraid of it. >> is it going to happen in italy, in france? is it going to happen in the netherland? >> i think it is. >> germany? >> the thing with accelerations, they keep going until they eventually run out. mother nature isn't slowing down. >> accelerations keep going until you crash. >> i do worry about that. i really worry about that and how we find the balance to anchor people in this world. to me, the one thing that worries me, joe, is that the big question out there is who...

I go to a public bathroom, there's people who don't look like they should be there. i go to work, there's a robot studying my job. two things that anchor my world, my community and my job, they're both in such a vast process of transformation. there's lot of people who feel unmoored. the trump phenomena, the brexit phenomena. somebody please put up a wall against these accelerations are reflections of that. >> you wrote one of your landmark books, the lexus and olive tree 1999, in talking about the olive tree. right now in 2016, 17 years later, it seems like a lot of people in america and brit...

Around me like a chain, but i never was afraid it would die. you can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye. and i think these accelerations are like a hurricane. and trump and brexit is about putting up a wall to slow them down. i think you have to build an eye. the eye for me is the healthy community. that's a platform of dynamic stability within it. >> did you see trump coming? >> um, i certainly didn't see him coming, but i took him seriously from day one. i never had to apologize. i covered him as he came. i took his -- >> is that the standard now? >> if you're that ...