Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

by Thomas L. Friedman

The Khan–College Board collaboration is really worth studying because it’s a microcosm of how we can beat the bots—how we can make the transition to a different education-to-work-to-lifelong-learning social contract in the age of accelerations. There are three basic ingredients of the Khan–College Board revolution: (1) More will be on you, and you’d better take ownership of that fact and seek out intelligent assistants and assistance everywhere that you can; (2) precisely because more is on you, government and social organizations need to get serious about providing you not just any tools, but much better tools—informed by artificial intelligence tailored exactly for you and your needs and reinforced by a caring adult or coach, wherever possible; and (3) technology can take you only so far. Concentration also matters. Coleman likes to say that today the “technology of interruption has outpaced the technology of concentration.” Students need to learn the discipline of sustained concentration more than ever and to immerse themselves in practice—without headphones on. 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. If

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