Welby, Justin
Wells, Lin
Welsh, Tim
West Africa; Ebola outbreak in; migration from
WhatIs.com
WhatsApp
“When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism” (Haidt)
White House, 2015 drone crash at
White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)
Whitman, Meg
“Why ‘Keep Your Paddle in the Water’ Is Bad Advice for Beginners” (Levesque)
“Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work” (Miller)
Wieseltier, Leon
Wikipedia
Williams, Jake
Wilson, Dan
wind energy
Windows
Wired
wireless networks
wisdom, patience and
Wolf, Frank
women: education of; empowerment of
WomenNewsNetwork.net
workforce, innovation in; accelerated pace of; blending of technical and interpersonal skills in; computerization and; connectivity and; disruption in; education and; empowerment in; high-wage, middle-skilled jobs in; intelligent assistance in, see intelligent assistance; intelligent assistants and; lifelong learning and; mentors in; middle class and; new social contracts in; on-demand jobs in; retraining in; self-motivation and; self-reinvention and; skill sets and, see skill sets; technological change and; transparency and; see also job seekers
World Bank
World Cup (2014)
World Is Flat, The (Friedman)
World of Disorder
World of Order
World Parks Congress, Sydney
“World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision” (U.N.)
World Trade Center
World Trade Organization
worldview; see also Machine, the
World War I
World War II
World Wide Web; search engines and
World Wildlife Fund
“wound collectors”
Wujec, Tom
X (Google research lab)
Xerox PARC research center
Y2K
Yahoo
Yassin, Israa
Yaun, David
Years of Living Dangerously (TV show)
Yelp
Yemen
Yeni Medya (New Media Inc.)
Yeo, George
Yildiz, Sadik
YouTube; advertising/ISIS video controversy and
Zambrano, Patricio
Zedillo, Ernesto
Zelle, Charlie
Zika virus
ALSO BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989)
The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999)
Longitudes and Attitudes (2002)
The World Is Flat (2005)
Hot, Flat, and Crowded (2008)
That Used to Be Us (with Michael Mandelbaum, 2011)
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
PART I: REFLECTING
1. Thank You for Being Late
PART II: ACCELERATING
2. What the Hell Happened in 2007?
3. Moore’s Law
4. The Supernova
5. The Market
6. Mother Nature
PART III: INNOVATING
7. Just Too Damned Fast
8. Turning AI into IA
9. Control vs. Kaos
10. Mother Nature as Political Mentor
11. Is God in Cyberspace?
12. Always Looking for Minnesota
13. You Can Go Home Again (and You Should!)
PART IV: ANCHORING
14. From Minnesota to the World and Back
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Thomas L. Friedman
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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Interview with Debra Stone courtesy of the Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries.
Excerpts from “Let’s Design Social Media That Drives Real Change,” by Wael Ghonim, a talk delivered at the TEDGlobal>Geneva conference in 2015, courtesy of TED.
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