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<b>“What the pandemic exposed in America was that a significant portion of the country did not want to res­pond in a coordinated way...did not want to respond with chemistry, biology and physics, but with ideology and a political election campaign. When you do that with another superpower, maybe you’ll get away with it. If you do that with the mother of all superpow­ers, Mother Nature, she is just chemistry, biology and physics, baby, and she’ll make you pay.”</blockquote>

<div class="author" >- Thomas Friedman, Three-time Pulitzer winner & author</div>
</div><h2><strong><span>KEY TAKEAWAYS</span></strong></h2><ul>
	<li>The world is... getting fast. Change races on in an ecosystem of microchips, bandwidth, sensors, software, machine learning.</li>
	<li>It’s getting fused, by both climate change—we now experience the same weather extremes—and telecommunications.</li>
	<li>It’s getting really deep. Technology is taking us to places that are so deep even the government doesn’t know where we are.</li>
	<li>It’s getting radically open; with this little device, anyone can be a publisher, filmmaker, paparazzi, editor, and it’s all open for everyone to comment on</li>
	<li>It’s getting really smart; we have built machines now that are beyond anything human brains have evolved.</li>
</ul><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Vishakha Sharma</div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Oct 15, 2021 20:11 IST</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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<p>Covid-19 struck its most devastating blow at the heart of the United States. The US, with over 700,000 deaths and counting (nearly twice India’s toll), continues to be the country most affected by the pandemic. The world superpower was suddenly left vulnerable. For Pulitzer-prize winning author and columnist Thomas Friedman, Mother Nature was the victor, the sole superpower. Friedman had famously said 15 years ago that the world was flat because it had created a telecommunications platform where more people in more places could collaborate, compete and connect in more ways than before. The pandemic for him was another defining moment for this flat world. It exposed countries that did not have good healthcare systems and the politics to enable collaboration. But it also showed that the world is getting flatter—more digitised and hence more fused.</p><div class="quotes">
<blockquote>“What the pandemic exposed in America was that a significant portion of the country did not want to res&#xC2;&#xAD;pond in a coordinated way...did not want to respond with chemistry, biology and physics, but with ideology and a political election campaign. When you do that with another superpower, maybe you’ll get away with it. If you do that with the mother of all superpow&#xC2;&#xAD;ers, Mother Nature, she is just chemistry, biology and physics, baby, and she’ll make you pay.”</blockquote>

<div class="author" style="text-align:right">- Thomas Friedman, Three-time Pulitzer winner & author</div>
</div><h2><strong><span style="color:#FF0000;">KEY TAKEAWAYS</span></strong></h2><ul>
	<li>The world is... getting fast. Change races on in an ecosystem of microchips, bandwidth, sensors, software, machine learning.</li>
	<li>It’s getting fused, by both climate change—we now experience the same weather extremes—and telecommunications.</li>
	<li>It’s getting really deep. Technology is taking us to places that are so deep even the government doesn’t know where we are.</li>
	<li>It’s getting radically open; with this little device, anyone can be a publisher, filmmaker, paparazzi, editor, and it’s all open for everyone to comment on</li>
	<li>It’s getting really smart; we have built machines now that are beyond anything human brains have evolved.</li>
</ul><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Vishakha Sharma</div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Oct 15, 2021 20:11 IST</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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Mother Nature is the mother of all superpowers: Thomas Friedman

Three-time Pulitzer winner and author, Thomas Friedman says not to mess with the mother nature. Here's why

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