Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman hosts this timely forum, bringing together chief executive officers, tech pioneers, government officials, influential decision-makers and scholars to discuss the new world economy, opportunities and challenges. We will explore the complex dynamics of new-world infrastructure, especially the transformative electronic, digital and mobile environment. Attendees can expect invaluable insights into strategies for success in today’s new world order.
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SparkleMotion!
Did you see the panel? Awful lotta white guys . . . .
Forum Transmitted Disease
Working people can go fuck themselves, I see.
GregB
He’ll be talking about his new book:
My Wallet is Fat
aimai
Taxi to the dark side. Will synergize your…(noun, verb, adjective) here.
Comrade Mary
Hmm. Read that article, or look at the best Russian cat video EVER? Cat video!
BGinCHI
It’s just like Aspen but with 100% more ass.
maya
And everyone should have their cell and smartphones left on.
Gary K
@Comrade Mary: Yes, but is he sucking on it, or is it sucking on him?
Comrade Mary
Hmm. Read that article, or watch Tilda Swinton lead a dance-along at Ebertfest 2013? Tilda!
Comrade Mary
@Gary K: There’s a koan in there somewhere.
Roger Moore
So he’s moving into outright grifting now. I guess it shouldn’t be a big surprise.
Roger Moore
@Comrade Mary:
A cat that actually likes the vacuum cleaner? Wonders never cease.
Amir Khalid
… but no taxi drivers from Bangalore? I haz a sad.
patroclus
Unfortunately, it’ll probably be about six months before anyone will be able to fully comprehend the brilliant analysis and insights that the host will share with this forum.
Bob2
Why do you hate America, DougJ?
TXG1112
The discounted rate is only $995! What a bargain.
gbear
I just placed my order with asteroid-o-gram. It’ll be a big surprise.
Tod Westlake
What is this newfangled internet about which I hear so much?
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
@Roger Moore:
My cat likes my little Eureka mighty mite but hates the upright. I can “suck” his fur and zap him in the butt and he challenges the small tank vac but it’s feet don’t fail him now once the upright is turned on.
MattF
‘New World Order’? That… rings a bell.
sherparick
I am sure there will be lots of talk about the “deficit” and “tax reform” (a/k/a as cutting taxes on rich people) and how we need to shift money on spending on the “old” (e.g. those actually depend on Social Security and Medicare to survive and shift money to “investments,” especially “public-private partnerships” where all the profits go to the private and all the risks go to the public. About unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, I expect not so much. Jared Bernstein talked about how where the power is pretty much dictates such conversations. http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/the-preferences-of-the-wealthy-and-their-role-in-our-politics/
Morzer
I am betting the real Friedman strategy (marry a rich, gullible woman) isn’t likely to be the focus of discussion.
Chris
How’s the view from up there?
Ted & Hellen
Smiling faces tell lies.
The sweet sweet joy of helping GWB open his new comic book library.
Anoniminous
No Tommy. Take that “we” and shove it. You were focused on taxi drivers and golf courses. You did bugger all nothing to building anything.
Looking at the agenda … it’s completely Start of the Art as of 1998. Same gaggle of goons spewing the same old horseshit.
Mike in NC
The Koch brothers also put on an annual forum for CEOs and other influential types. Wonder if there’s any overlap?
celticdragonchick
You forgot a few tags on this one:
Bobbleheads
Broderism
“He has a book to sell”
Kabuki
Media Village Idiots
Moustache of Understanding
Serious Person
We Are All Mayans Now-
sherparick
Again, the politicians who will constantly scream nonsense about the deficit (see Senator Tom Coburn) and Benghazi, Benghazi (Rep. Issa, Cantor, etc.), no that no who matters cares about this problem. See http://www.businessinsider.com/this-photo-shows-how-much-politicians-care-about-the-long-term-unemployment-crisis-2013-4
jibeaux
@Amir Khalid: good one, sir.
Yastreblyansky
@Morzer: Mrs. F’s family was in real estate and lost billions during the kerfuffle in 2009, you know; they’re really down to their last yacht as it were. That’s why Tom has to hustle for a living after all.
Monkeyfister
Six months from now, this will be hailed as a remarkable success, I am sure of it.
El Caganer
It’s the Must-Miss Event of 2013!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@GregB: Tom Friedman, looking sharp and looking for love.
catclub
@Anoniminous: “the real lasting story of the moment.”
The writer is clearly an acolyte of the Friedman church.
Yutsano
And they’re holding it in godless librul San Francisco. Jeebus save us all!
Eric U.
@Morzer: the whole problem with rich, gullible women is that they sometimes are only rich because they own investment vehicles that fail, and fail big. I’m thinking that Tommy is a little worried about how much money his wife has now that the family business tanked
@Anoniminous: looks like TeD after traumatic brain injury, if that’s even possible
Comrade Dread
When we all have cybernetic implants that alter our perceptions of reality, I will pay cash money to the first of you geniuses who can make translate the pie filter to that device, so all words, images, sounds and articles generated from the media circle jerk are replaced with images of Strawberry-Banana Cream Pie.
Bokonon
We’ve built a digital, mobile plumbing system?
And that’s a bigger deal than the systemic financial and economic and political crises of the last few years?
Wowsers. You mean to tell me that people actually pay money to hear that sort of insight? I am in the wrong business.
Forum Transmitted Disease
@Roger Moore: Next stop on that train: congressional representative.
I think we know which party affiliation he’ll be running under.
gbear
@Yutsano: It’s the only way they can get anyone to show up.
Love the city, hate the twits.
Edit: after finding out it was in SF, I cancelled my asteroid order.
scav
English Dog Video to bookend Russian cats. Happy Recalcitrant Dogs running with Sheep.
Anoniminous
@catclub:
“The real lasting story of the moment” or six months. Which ever comes first.
@Eric U.:
At least the TeD Talkers have some vague idea of what they are talking about.
grape_crush
@patroclus: Damn! You beat me to using that reference, FU!
Anyone needing to book time with Tommy Friedman in order to have things ‘stache-splained to them is probably already a dinosaur in whatever field he works in.
Trollhattan
@Comrade Mary:
Aways liked her, now I lurve her! Also, too, Chaz boogies down on stage.
Nice.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
We keep putting out prime Meteor Bait, and yet no Meteor ever shows up. I’m beginning to think that The Flying Meteor Monster is just a myth.
Zifnab
Least intimidating Illuminati reference E-VAR.
muddy
@SparkleMotion!:
That’s the “new world order” for ya.
Sophist
Sweet fancy Moses. Please tell me this is just a scam to lure all these people into a rocket disguised as a convention center, and that when everyone’s inside they’ll weld the doors shut and fire it into the sun.
jl
I find this agenda item intriguing.
“What You Don’t Know Is Coming”
Seems like it could be read several ways.
At least it is in SF. More tourist bucks! Yay for us. And it might be easy to get Prof. De Long to come over the bridge and make a few comments on Friedman’s economic thought. I wonder whether they thought of that.
I also liked what looked like a clip of UCLA in the clip. Go, gritty little Bruins!
Roger Moore
@Comrade Dread:
Wouldn’t it be better to hack the cybernetic implants of the media circle jerk and cause them to say things that were worth listening to?
Sophist
@muddy:
Meet the New World Order, same as the Old World Order.
catclub
@Roger Moore: So how many suckers at $1k per head? What is the split of the take?
raven
you talkin to me?
GxB
And in the other corner, Yahoo Finance has a headlining story about Krugthulu being right all along.
Tell us how it’s done Tommy-boy, just give it another six months! I’m sure austerity will prevail!
Christ, what an asshole.
jl
@muddy:
There’s a Business Columnist and Culture Reporter from the The New York Times.
I guess if Friedman is there, they don’t need an economist.
I’ll tell them De Long is nearby and handy. He can represent the Krugman/Stiglitz/Galbraith nexus. (Edit: a nexus BTW which is hyper interconnected and therefore should be of interest, even if they don’t agree on every little thing).
lojasmo
@Ted & Hellen:
Carter and Clinton are there too. Nothing on them, Racist dickhead?
RaflW
RaflW
@Sophist: Thank. You.
I need a bit of levity now and then. And now.
liberal
@jl:
DeLong has made too many obsequious noises in the direction of Alan “Public Enemy #1” Greenspan to represent anything respectable.
jl
@Sophist:
@RaflW:
” a scam to lure all these people into a rocket disguised as a convention center ”
Wasn’t there a gimmick like that in an old Sim City? Everything is even more digitally hyper interconnected now, so you can never tell.
ranchandsyrup
They’re just gonna hafta reconvene every six months.
jl
@liberal: True, but I doubt he would do that act at the Friedman Fest SF. But, he does talk way too slow, so maybe Krugman or Stiglitz will be in town.
Another Halocene Human
@Forum Transmitted Disease: Can’t we always? Haven’t you caught on that we’re assholes for not being rich tits like them?
Tim C.
Dang it…. five other people made a “six months” joke before I saw the post.
Another Halocene Human
@Roger Moore: More proof that cats are freaks.
Timurid
So I assume it will be a lot more “GREAT NEWS the coming EXCITING CHALLENGING DYNAMIC social economic technological PARADIGM SHIFTS will turn the least accomplished 90% of you into EXPENDABLE MEATSACKS. Are you all as TOTALLY STOKED about that as I AM?! AVERAGE IS OVER, MOTHERFUCKER!”
Gin & Tonic
Just wanted to say, on behalf of moustache-wearers all over America, Tommy is the unfortunate exception to our wit and coolness. He’s almost tempted me to shave in disgust.
Eric U.
@jl: every time someone talks about launching a rocket full of undesirables into the sun I think of Hitchhiker’s Guide. Although I can’t think of what these people could conceivably be saving us from, too much prosperity?
@Another Halocene Human: I know more than one dog that loves to lick a stream of compressed air. I assume the vacuum is similar
JPL
@SparkleMotion!: Just so you know, white guys can be taxi drivers, also. According to Tom they have a lot of insight.
Another Halocene Human
@Sophist: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Race_Riot
This made me cry today.
Another Halocene Human
@GxB: Don’t tempt me. I know about Yahoo! comments. I will not get out of the boat.
Amir Khalid
Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman hosts this timely forum, bringing together chief executive officers, tech pioneers, government officials, influential decision-makers and scholars to
discuss the new world economy, opportunities and challengesto congratulate each other and the forum attendees on being the heppest and savviest and most influential dudes on the planet.ericblair
I can summarize the conference for only $495:
The future is like today, only more so.
Marry money.
I guess I should have got your credit card info before telling you the big secrets, but I guess I’m not as smart as Timmeh.
Comrade Dread
@Roger Moore: I don’t think anyone is that skilled of a programmer to do that.
Anoniminous
@Gin & Tonic:
“A well haired upper lip, being necessary to the cognitive functioning of a free State, the right of men to keep and bear mustaches, shall not be infringed.”
I will give up my mustache when they pry it from my cold, dead, face.
kc
Attendees can expect invaluable insights into strategies for success in today’s new world order.
Hahaha, what a load of crap.
srv
Quick, we need to lease a hundred google cars, offer them to the eventees and program them to drive off of one of Larry’s piers.
Or something more Daniel Suarez-ish.
Patrick
I bet the next six months will be critical…
Roger Moore
Somebody seems to have confused “invaluable” with “valueless”.
SatanicPanic
@Another Halocene Human: Too late for me. I had to go there to mock the dummies for a little bit.
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
I parked my Lexus on the flat earth under the olive tree, and entered the conference which was hot and crowded.
pzerzan
Who will chair the panel-
Mustaches: Do they lead to more or less understanding?
SatanicPanic
@kc: He’s using “can expect” in the same way I might say “you can expect invaluable insights… (quietly to self) but I wouldn’t”
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
@pzerzan: My money would be on John Bolton.
schrodinger's cat
What did MoU get his Pulitzer for? Not for his insipid columns, I hope.
schrodinger's cat
@pzerzan: Tunch.
Bokonon
You know one of the coolest features of the New World Order that has developed?
It is the high intellectual caliber of today’s cab drivers. You have people with PhDs and other advanced degrees driving cabs. It is just awesome!
So you can get actually unusually good insights and analyses from your cab drivers, while they are taking you from one very important meeting to another. Not just common man stuff!
Because … the world is flat! And tons of people are jobless! Ain’t it terrific?
MomSense
@muddy:
Meet the new world order, same as the old world order.
MomSense
@Sophist:
Darn, you got there first!!
catclub
@jl: Hosted by Satchel Paige!
David Fud
He has been talking about a carbon tax on his book tour to make up $1.2 trillion over ten years. If that is a signal of new thinking from the conservative side, I am all for at least having the discussion, at least for one Friedman unit or so.
burnspbesq
Here’s another shocking revelation:
Terrorists who attack the United States believe they have legitimate grievances.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/24/boston-terrorism-motives-us-violence
Yes, Captain Reynaud, not only is there gambling going on in this establishment, it’s been going on for a long time.
chopper
please let the next sentence be “and then we blow up the building”.
Morzer
@Yastreblyansky:
I am an evil person. Your post gave me a warm glow of inner satisfaction. How, if David Brooks could only be reduced to penury and washing the dishes in a halal restaurant….
GxB
@Another Halocene Human: You are correct in that the comments are enough to make you wish for more and bigger meteors, nothing new there, but the accompanying vid with two talking heads is pretty scathing. Yeah they throw the GOP a bone or two, but the one guy is pretty chuffed. A good sign when the rank and file are starting to indicate they ain’t buying what Ryan and Co. are selling. Even better that it’s taking place on the likes of Yahoo finance.
Sad_Dem
Comb-over beats mustache in the griftin’ game.
Mr Stagger Lee
I can see some of the topics for discussion
BULLWHIPS OR CATTLE PRODS, WHICH IS BETTER FOR PRODUCTIVITY?
HEY AMERICANS SUCK IT UP YOU CAN LIVE ON A BANGLADESHI INCOME!!!!
GOD MEANT US TO BE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!!! OBEY GOD OR GO TO HELL!!!!
WHAT TO DO WITH THE SURPLUS POPULATION, AND ADVANTAGES OF SOYLENT GREEN!
Lurking Canadian
It might be interesting to go there to see if it is literally possible to cover San Francisco Bay in meaningless corporate catchphrases, or only figuratively possible.
gnomedad
@Comrade Mary:
Day, made.
Yastreblyansky
@Morzer: Halal is a beautiful touch. And may Douthat be seduced by a luscious (or downright chunky) siren who thinks abortions are a great adventure and lose his faith and go get hepatitis in India trying to figure out what went wrong.