Thomas L. Friedman Quote

There is mounting performance pressure on all of us—as individuals and institutions. All of this connectivity means significantly lower barriers to entry and movement, accelerating change and the increasing occurrence of extreme, disruptive events, all of which put significant pressure on our institutions … On a personal level, the example I use is a billboard that used to be up on a highway here in Silicon Valley which asked a simple question: ‘How does it feel to know that there are at least one million people around the world who can do your job?’ While we might argue whether it is one thousand or one million, it would have been an absurd question to ask twenty or thirty years ago because it didn’t really matter—I’m here and they are somewhere else. Now it is increasingly a central question, and one might add, ‘How does it feel to know there are at least one million robots who can do your job?’ We are all feeling mounting performance pressure at