Sunday's NYT Week in Review - No big ideas vs. "Theory of everything sort of"
Food for thought in NYT Sunday review - provocative piece http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/the-elusive-big-idea.html?scp=1&sq=The%20elusive%20big%20idea&st=cse
riffing from an Atlantic piece that we prize information more than ideas that synthesize or make sense out of information and have been game changing in the past. While not the end of the debate by any means because there is much to the criticism, I was heartened reading Tom Friedman's p. 6 piece http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/Friedman-a-theory-of-everyting-sort-of.html?ref=thomaslfriedman that in his trademark fashion tried to synthesize the tea party emergence here, the Arab Spring, and London's disorder in a world trade theme. Tom Friedman's success as a synthesizer is to me a sign that there is hope on this score.
riffing from an Atlantic piece that we prize information more than ideas that synthesize or make sense out of information and have been game changing in the past. While not the end of the debate by any means because there is much to the criticism, I was heartened reading Tom Friedman's p. 6 piece http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/Friedman-a-theory-of-everyting-sort-of.html?ref=thomaslfriedman that in his trademark fashion tried to synthesize the tea party emergence here, the Arab Spring, and London's disorder in a world trade theme. Tom Friedman's success as a synthesizer is to me a sign that there is hope on this score.
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