Sobre El Autor
Journalist Thomas L. Friedman was born in 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Friedman graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean Studies and earned a graduate degree from Oxford in Modern Middle East Studies. His reporting on the war in Lebanon won the George Polk Award, the mostrar más Pulitzer Prize, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He won a second Pulitzer for his work in Israel. Friedman began his career as a correspondent for United Press International and later served as bureau chief for the New York Times in Beirut and Jerusalem. He moved to the op-ed page of The New York Times as a foreign affairs columnist. In 2002, Friedman won his third Pulitzer Prize, this time for Commentary. Friedman wrote about his experiences as a Jewish-American reporter in the Middle East in From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won the National Book Award in 1989. The bestselling Lexus and the Olive Tree won the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. He wrote Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 and The World Is Flat, which received the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. His other works include Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0, and That Used to Be Us which made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. His title, Thank You for Being Late, made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Thomas L. Friedman
La Tierra Es Plana / The World Is Flat: Breve Historia del Mundo Globalizado del Siglo XXI / A Brief History of the… (2005) 13,103 copias
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America (2008) 3,293 copias
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (2016) 1,055 copias
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (2011) 705 copias
The Energy Mandate (Article) 1 copia
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- Nombre canónico
- Friedman, Thomas L.
- Nombre legal
- Friedman, Thomas Lauren
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1953-07-20
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
Kibbutz Hahotrim, Israel
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Beirut, Lebanon - Educación
- Brandeis University (BA ∙ Mediterranean studies ∙ 1975)
University of Minnesota
St Antony's College, University of Oxford (M.Phil ∙ 1978 | Middle Eastern studies)
American University in Cairo
St. Louis Park High School - Ocupaciones
- journalist
columnist
author
golf caddy
professor
political commentator - Relaciones
- Friedman, Ann Bucksbaum (wife)
- Organizaciones
- The New York Times
United Press International
Pulitzer Prize Board - Premios y honores
- Marshall Scholar
Pulitzer Prize (International Reporting, 1983)
Pulitzer Prize (International Reporting, 1988)
Pulitzer Prize (Commentary, 2002)
Overseas Press Club Award for lifetime achievement (2004)
Officer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2004) (mostrar todos 11)
George Polk Award (1982)
Overseas Press Club Award (2000)
American Philosophical Society (2003)
Golden Plate Award (2003)
National Book Award (1989)
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La tierra es plana: Breve historia del mundo… por Thomas Friedman
El tres veces ganador del premio Pulitzer y auténtico gurú de la economía, Thomas Friedman, presenta en su bestselleriano La Tierra es plana las claves que explican el fenómeno conocido como 'aplanamiento' o 'muerte de las distancias'. Con un estilo brillante, claro y directo, Friedman acerca al lector al complicado proceso de la globalización, que nos aboca a un nuevo orden social, y explica sus implicaciones a nivel estatal e individual.
Hojeé este libro en Buenos Aires y justo caí en la parte donde explicaba como funciona el algoritmo de búsqueda de un comercio electrónico, donde cada microsegundo cuenta. Así que decidí comprarlo y leerlo. Los primeros capítulos son super entretenidos, donde muestra como el año 2007 pasará a la historia como uno de los super años: iphone, facebook, airbnb, IBM Watson, Android etc.
Friedman une tres fuerzas que dominan el rumbo del mundo: la ley de Moore (tecnología), la ley del mercado (globalización) y la ley de la naturaleza (clima). Esta fuerzas están convergiendo y acelerando transformaciones en política, trabajo, ética y comunidad. La parte de la comunidad, al final, es la más aburrida del libro (a menos que seas de Minessota). La primera parte habla de todos los avances disruptivos y la última acerca de la comunidad. Friedman no hizo mucho por enlazarlas.
Algunos párrafos que me gustaron:
"la época más peligrosa para caminar en Nueva York fue cuando comenzaron a circular los autos y aún había caballos"
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
"Las habilidades más importantes del mañana son las que aprendemos en el kindergarten"
“No athlete, no scientist, no musician ever got better without focused practice, and there is no program you can download for that. It has to come from within.”
“God always forgives. Man often forgives. Nature never forgives. —”
"Google started as a search engine and is now also becoming a car company and a home energy management system. Apple is a computer manufacturer that is now the biggest music seller and is also going into the car business, but in the meantime, with Apple Pay, it’s also becoming a bank. Amazon, a retailer, came out of nowhere to steal a march on both IBM and HP in cloud computing. Ten years ago neither company would have listed Amazon as a competitor. But Amazon needed more cloud computing power to run its own business and then decided that cloud computing was a business! "
“As the world speeds up, stocks of knowledge depreciate at a faster rate.”… (más)
Friedman une tres fuerzas que dominan el rumbo del mundo: la ley de Moore (tecnología), la ley del mercado (globalización) y la ley de la naturaleza (clima). Esta fuerzas están convergiendo y acelerando transformaciones en política, trabajo, ética y comunidad. La parte de la comunidad, al final, es la más aburrida del libro (a menos que seas de Minessota). La primera parte habla de todos los avances disruptivos y la última acerca de la comunidad. Friedman no hizo mucho por enlazarlas.
Algunos párrafos que me gustaron:
"la época más peligrosa para caminar en Nueva York fue cuando comenzaron a circular los autos y aún había caballos"
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
"Las habilidades más importantes del mañana son las que aprendemos en el kindergarten"
“No athlete, no scientist, no musician ever got better without focused practice, and there is no program you can download for that. It has to come from within.”
“God always forgives. Man often forgives. Nature never forgives. —”
"Google started as a search engine and is now also becoming a car company and a home energy management system. Apple is a computer manufacturer that is now the biggest music seller and is also going into the car business, but in the meantime, with Apple Pay, it’s also becoming a bank. Amazon, a retailer, came out of nowhere to steal a march on both IBM and HP in cloud computing. Ten years ago neither company would have listed Amazon as a competitor. But Amazon needed more cloud computing power to run its own business and then decided that cloud computing was a business! "
“As the world speeds up, stocks of knowledge depreciate at a faster rate.”… (más)
Este libro explica de manera excelente los cambios revolucionarios que han producido la globalización posibilitada por las TIC.
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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (No-ficción – 2011)
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America (No-ficción – 2008)
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