Thomas Friedman on Thriving in the Age of Acceleration
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He has been called ‘the most influential columnist in America’, and is read by everyone from small-business owners to President Obama. As a star columnist of The New York Times, Thomas Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. Although he has been dubbed ‘the high priest of globalisation’, Friedman is well aware that it is the tensions created by globalisation which have paved the way for the election of Donald Trump. Nevertheless, when he comes to the Intelligence Squared stage, Friedman will argue that contrary to Trump’s promises of walls and tariffs, it is openness to trade and ideas that will allow us all to thrive amid the rapid, startling changes sweeping through the world.
Given the dizzying whirlwind of technological change which has wiped out jobs and transformed workplaces, it is no wonder that electorates have reached for Trump’s protectionist solutions in the US and nativist retrenchment in the UK. But, as Friedman will argue, the forces of globalisation needn’t spell disaster. Instead, it is how we respond to these accelerating changes that will determine whether we falter or flourish. Both the EU referendum and the US presidential election were contests not between left and right, but between what Friedman calls ‘Wall People’ - those who feel their identity threatened by globalisation - and ‘Web People’: those who instinctively embrace the current pace of change and are keen to collaborate in a world without walls.
In this major event, Friedman will offer his guide to updating our lives and institutions for the accelerating changes of the 21st century. For example:
- We need to innovate not just technologically, but politically: moral leadership in a complex world is becoming ever more essential
- Political leaders should be accelerating local start-ups in both the economic sector and the social sector, to build resilient and prospering citizens
- The ideal skill set for the jobs of the future is ‘stempathy’: science, technology, maths - and empathy
Join us on January 24th, and hear how the new asset class is not information but ‘human capital talent’, and how we can all thrive in the age of acceleration.
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I bet you can't name one thing this NYT "genius" has ever gotten right. Go ahead, I dare you!
This youtube video has no CC option; so, cannot find speech text in the Open Transcripts panel to find the right timing Friedman says something. However, do anyone knows by chance where is the part he says something quite important like: 'they tried to save the Jobs, but actually what we currently need is to save the Workers'? Tx.
Thanks guys
Not only is God seemingly absent from cyberspace, God seems to be disappearing from more and more lives. I think this is related to loss of strong community: the one central element religious communities offer is the strength of community where caring for each other is central. As people abandon faith they also abandon community centered (when the community is healthy) around love and care for each other and honoring the do unto others you mention. How do we religious leaders strengthen the sense of community connected to reality rather than to strict religious doctrine? Perhaps it’s as Noah Harari mentions, using the stories of faith to connect to the lives of people where they live rather than in abstraction and doctrine.
Danders should run on "Change that will Actually Happen."
Friedman is out of use
“What I am selling is an eye” hmmm 🤔 says the Oracle. Thomas Friedman is underrated in what he saying. DEEP deep deep dude
@joeleugene4406
2 жыл бұрын
Instablaster
Thomas Friedman is always nice to be heard.
@charlestan3019
4 жыл бұрын
utubetruthteller
@christianyang7595
4 жыл бұрын
utubetruthteller utubetruthteller who is heavily biased against China
@matinmohebi5466
3 жыл бұрын
if you had not had enough of the establishment bs then keep listening to him who know nothing until he get more information so he say on things that 11 year old know well because it was in news 500 times. his existence is a lie. I don't know who give this idiot any prize and why ? brain sucker was himself for so many years. was is the key word
ummm, this was recommended to me when I looked up Phineas and Ferb....
@theinternet1424
4 жыл бұрын
As if the algorhythm sometimes deeply hates us...
Does "forward-looking" and "progressive" necessarily equate to "desirable" or to "inevitable" ? See a book called "NUDGE" by Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler . People habitually face forward when they are moving toward a goal or a destination , but are they oriented by their own conscious choices or by a rhetorical equivocation that could be misleading ?
Best IQ square so far !!!
A lot of commonplaces!
18:40 her question why "suddenly" we are having these problems ... Please, these have been issues from the beginning of time. Humans divide ourselves and dislike others who are different. Even in her example of New york, there are Asian "bits" jewish "bits" irish "bits" ...each group segregated itself, although there was a lot of mixing by those who were curious, there are always people who isolated themselves in fear. Even today we have "white" neighborhoods, hispanic neighborhoods etc also not just with race but also with ideology, people are separated into liberal or conservative pockets, stuck in echo chambers....
@matinmohebi5466
3 жыл бұрын
liberal's armed with socialist Islam with terror and there mass dislocation specialty, rings a all new bell, yes but a old memories of freedom who had seen these days before, before it was banish for 1400 years until Abraham Lincoln.
There is no need to compete with China. They are glad to work with anyone.
she need "thug life" shades at 0.36
@johnmcgregor9277
4 жыл бұрын
God is a vital part of cyber space... it is often difficult to find him there. Look for acts, ideas and tender moments when love is made manifest. You will find Him there..
She probably has a shiny black version of those boots too.
Oh, Tom. On Trump being an "indecent man". You could not image what would come after you said that.....
Technology aceleration has disrupted disruption and my new word contribution is [ rumperedis ]
Hindsight is amazing; What are the chances Trump could get impeached in a year or so? hahaha 46:58
Please Thomas Friedman you claim to accept and enjoy those that are different, but then chastise and politicize ! The Coming changes will be faster than we can adapt to no matter what a persons politics, Race or Religion ! Big business is pushing automation on all levels making many workers [ Humans ] obsolete as production is moved to robotics . The acceleration of the decline of a humanoid workforce Will cause enormous upheaval in the middle and lower classes. My advice Hold on to things loosely! live modestly!
@jensheahan7522
6 жыл бұрын
Wells JustGofaster well said
Eight minutes and he hasn't said anything.
Intellectual progress has outpaced social progress and catching up can be difficult & painful. Some accept change while others resist change especially the ill informed & fanatics. We unwittingly find ourselves on the treadmill of technological progress, some are outpaced, some struggle to keep up while a small number push forward for a period of time till they are running to stand still or fall off. This scenario may provide short lived satisfaction but almost always ends in despair, isolation & anger. Those who can offer solutions to this endless problem often tell you they are the only solution & the gullible latch on grasping at straws. It is important to be assured that it is not your fault & scapegoat people different from yourself as the cause. This thinking is convenient, lazy and self destructive, but always works. We need to apply the proverbial brakes & reassess our situation and work for a solution inclusive of all & scapegoating of none. Let us give it a shot!
Other than "The jobs of the future will be connecting hearts", which I am not sure is correct, or if it is it is an oversimplification of a huge scale ; but other than that,he really didn't say much new.... though that alone if he is right is plenty to watch this video.
Where is the locus of control in the community polity , and does the "pipeline" tend to limit freedom of individual choice or to tend toward the installation of a caste system ?
Future Shock ... by Alvin Toffler
Lady has learnt a lot from a certain president: exaggerate, always exaggerate. 0:24
why does he hate Trump?
Wow I just learned a new word postbiblical post·bib·li·cal ˌpōst-ˈbi-bli-kəl : occurring or existing after the creation of the Bible or after the events recorded in the Bible
The breakdown of the unions have allowed business to not invest in , apprenticeships , tuition assistance , and community to ......the global market place of ....least cost disposable replaceable supply chain and elimination of the salescandvservicecsectorsvtondirect ship and computer order and execution of the transactions
To thrive, start with an inheritance first. Then shill around with vacuous vocabulary until you can profit from the next war.
Fascinating insights brilliant interviewer
With due respect, Thomas Freedman is truly doesn't understand the human being or no respect the human need.
I just love listening to this gentleman ,and read most of his books .
fact is that trump is the president and i don/t see anyone to .beat him in 2020
@billypilgrim7838
4 жыл бұрын
Carlos F Doria look
Uum, uumm, thumbs down.
I think community went out the door a long time ago.. no one could care less.
warmongering scumbag remains celebrated by the system. imagine
She's gorgeous
@HIROLLER9
4 жыл бұрын
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@sewing2165
4 жыл бұрын
I agree
@dougraddi908
4 жыл бұрын
Omg she's hot
Jesus Christ man, the comments on these videos loooooooool. Dafuq you all smoking? Y'all play too much.
@omogaju
7 жыл бұрын
Andrew Chang I thought I was alone in my observations
LGBT... business cards... I broke my shoulder...Moore's law... what the hell is this man talking about? I hope the audience didn't have to pay money to watch this obscenity
She is beautiful
Now that was truly dumb. If people would be rational you'd be able to see through his fog of fear mongering. He doesn't prescribe any solutions or paths to it, only places to blame. There is no insight whatsoever, not to mention the number of times he contradicts himself. Please, for those you support this guy because he sounds eloquent. Go back and have a listen with open ears. Think critically, and not about whether he's on your side of the fence or not.
this is the second debate i watch that the same presenter sways it to a bashing of Donald Trump.I see it everywhere else the world is perplexed. please talk more the topic at end. @iqsquared
@moonmunster
5 жыл бұрын
Trump needs to be bashed.
Trump 2020!
@billypilgrim7838
4 жыл бұрын
trojanthedog Bernie
At around 26 min - What ignorant talkers do we have? You havent heard of Bernie Sanders? Do you live in a bottle?
product of monetary-democracy..So much mistrust. ...We need and are getting AI...The Next generations may sadly understand a little of our sinister mind-sets but will, be mainly, too busy with their attentions set on developing together a world that we cannot imagine..:-)Better than money and better than democracy and better than sex.
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Is not his rehashing of kurzweil book is pligraism even if he not copying everything
This guy is stuck in 20th Century thinking.
Tom believes in God?
@kayem3824
6 жыл бұрын
His God is $$$
As one neoliberal journalist to another, ''you are the best'', but Thomas Friedman supported and now justifies the war on Iraq, where he argued that an ''open society'' such as the US needed to ''take out a big stick'' to the Middle-East and ''going from house to house from Basra to Baghdad, and saying what part of this don't you understand.... suck on this'', presumably meaning on the shape end of the US military machine. In the light of an estimated over 1 million Iraqis killed, the war crimes committed and the many innocent Iraqis tortured, as well as thousands of US soldiers killed and many more injured, Friedman is at best a disgusting and deplorable human being and journalist and at worst some kind of neoliberal sociopath.
Why are you giving platforms for war crime advocates? Friedman doesn't need another platform. He needs a prison cell.
@powernoid
7 жыл бұрын
You're thinking of Trump.
@jensheahan7522
6 жыл бұрын
Dimmed Diamond why does he need a prison cell?
@sewing2165
4 жыл бұрын
Bainsworth Trump needs to be locked up
Bit over hyped about himself eww
Neoliberal nonsense. It's time to run these creeps out of town.
Such a shame that he had to end his debate with a nut bag religious escapade. Surprised that IQ2 would allow fairy tales into the realms of academia
Whos going to write the book"How Reagan Destroyed America
Friedman is a overpaid havk.
Con Artist.
vote for TRUMP we need our constitutions back in U.S.A
@johndavid1773
4 жыл бұрын
idiota
I voted for Obama and then I voted for trump
@omogaju
7 жыл бұрын
RAW FOOD PHILOSOPHY just out of curiosity, would you do things differently? or you're still happy with your choice?
@dickhamilton3517
7 жыл бұрын
congrats. _Two_ wasted votes.
@mikeflores5929
6 жыл бұрын
However, winning votes...
@johndavid1773
4 жыл бұрын
lol pretty smart bloke