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| 台灣的讀者朋友： 感謝各位撥冗閱讀《謝謝你遲到了》這本書！我對台灣人民的能量與專注力印象深刻。儘管你們在一個小島上生活，卻能掌握全球脈動，躋身世界最富裕國家之林。我想，你們必定非常關注本書所探討的議題，也就是主導未來數十年的重大趨勢──地球上最大的三股力量──我稱為「市場」（數位全球化）、「大自然」（氣候變遷），以及「摩爾定律」（電晶體的效能每兩年就會倍增。）這三股力量不僅同時呈指數型加速，更是彼此餵養，不但改變了世界的面貌，更重新形塑了現代世界。這三股力量重新形塑了政治、地緣地治、職場、倫理與社區，本書聚焦討論這五大場域的變化，也討論我們該如何重新想像這些場域的未來。台灣是一個終身學習型的國家，相信各位必然關注這類論述。我對台灣的未來十分看好──在這個加速發展的未來中，希望本書有助於各位安度這個轉變的過渡期，展現更傲人的生產力。 |
| 謹此致謝 湯馬斯•佛里曼 |
To my many friends and readers in Taiwan, thank you for being late──and for taking time to read this book! I have always been impressed with the energy and focus of the Taiwanese people. You live on a small island, yet you stay so attuned to global trends that you have made yourselves one of the wealthiest per capita nations in the world. What I think you will enjoy most from this book is that it defines the major trends that I believe will shape the coming decades──that the three largest forces on the planet──which I call ``the market'' (digital globalization), ``Mother Nature'' (climate change) and ``Moore's Law'' (that the power of microchips will double every two years or so) ──are now all accelerating exponentially at once and each feeding the other. Together, these forces are not just changing the world. They are reshaping the world. They are reshaping politics, geopolitics, the workplace, ethics and community. This book is about those reshaping realms and how we reimagine all five. I have no worries that my readers and friends in Taiwan will be interested in this argument because yours is a life-long learning nation. I see many good things in Taiwan's future ──a future that I hope this book will help you navigate even more productively. |
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| （更豐富的內容，請見《謝謝你遲到了》） |
