YouSaid · the spoken record

Thomas Friedman

lines on the record: 111
first: 2016-12-19
most recent: 2016-12-19
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“Android came on in 2007, Kindle came on in 2007, IBM Watson was started in 2007, Airbnb started in 2007, the price of sequencing, the human genome collapsed in 2007, fracking started in 2007, solar energy took off in 2007. And Intel went off silicon for the first time in 2007, introduced non-silicon materials into its transistors to all these”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, yeah, but basically what happens in 2007 is the iPhone comes out. So we begin a process of putting a handheld computer connected to the internet in the palm of basically we're on our way to everybody in the planet. But of course what also happened in 2007 was Facebook in late 2006 breaks out of high schools and universities, goes global, Twitter goes global in 2007, start in 2006. Hadoop is started in 2007, gives us a foundation for big data. GitHub has started in 2007, gives us the world's now biggest open source.”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just want to say fast free, easy for you, and ubiquitous. And I gave it a name. I said the world is flat And I actually wrote the 1.0 of that in 2.5 in 2005, 2.0 in 2006, and 3.0 in 2007 And then I stop. I kind of thought I had enough framework to understand things. It turns out care that 2007 was a bad year to stop sniffing glue, as my stockbroker says, because what happened in 2007 is that technology platform made another big step up”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Connectivity. And connectivity became fast free, easy for you, and ubiquitous to a whole new degree, a difference of degree that was different in kind in that I could suddenly touch people I never imagined touching before and I could be touched by people. I never imagined touching me before. And I gave that moment a name.”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That around the turn of the century, when we face the issue of Y2K and remediation, companies woke up and discovered they could suddenly access 150,000 engineers in India to remediate all these computers. And I called my mom back in Minneapolis one day and said, mom, what's new? And she clearly made clear that I was disturbing her. And I said, what's wrong? She said, I'm playing bridge on the internet with someone in Siberia. So what happened because of this price collapse, Kare, is that”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, maybe the short explanation I can give you to tie this book with the earlier ones is I think technology moves up in steps. We know that moves up in step. You have a new platform, a whole set of technologies scale, and then they give birth to new ones. So, you know, we're always moving up that way, whether it's from the typewriter to the mainframe or the iPhone. So I think right around the year 2000, we took a really big step up. And it was based on a price collapse. And it was a collapse in the price of fiber optic cable because of the dot-com boom bubble and bust. And honey, I shrunk the world. Didn't mean to. But we made fiber optic cables so cheap”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's been a theme for a lot of people. Ariana's doing it, like a lot of people who have been embracing the digital age are talking about that. There's a guy named Tristan, I think Tristan, I can't remember his last name, but he has a whole group that's trying to get people to stop warning against the evils of social media and what happens. And we'll get into that. But talk about these accelerations. So obviously it's a theme you've written about a lot. You've written numerous, numerous columns about it. The world of Splat is really about technology.”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which Or whatever at the rate. But I just was reflecting. And people started to get into it. They'd say, well, you're welcome. And in fact, my favorite quote in the front of the books from my friend Dove Seideman, who says, you know, 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 rethink, reimagine, reflect. What the book is basically arguing is that in the age of accelerations, and they'll talk about that, I think there's so much rethinking, reimagining, and re-engineering and reflecting we need to do. And this book is basically giving permission and celebrating, slowing down to do that.”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thank you for being late because you were late. I've been eavesdropping on their conversation. Fascinating. I've been people watching the lobby. Fantastic. And most importantly, I just connected two ideas I've been struggling with.”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the title comes from Meeting People in Washington, D.C. for breakfast where I live. And I don't like to waste breakfast by eating alone when I can learn from somebody. So I schedule a lot of breakfast. And every once in a while, someone would come 10, 15 minutes late. Say, Tom, I'm really sorry, is the weather, the traffic, the subway, the dog, ate my homework. And one day one of them, about three years ago now, Peter Corsell, Kim Leyden was frustrated. And I just spontaneously said, Dim Kara, actually, Peter?”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So talk a little bit about this book. Now, you wrote The World Is Flat, which was about these themes, the idea that we are all being brought together by technology for good or worse, really. Talk about the title. Thank you for being late.”
2016-12-19 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Tom Friedman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT