This book would have been better off as a trilogy. Friedman is fun to read
but incredibly verbose. He arrives at his points taking the long way around which can be both confusing and frustrating. While reading this book, which took some time I must say, I was asked - what is that book about? In the moment I couldn't come up with an answer. I recalled much of what I had read and at the time if felt like I had read a few disconnected and separate books with a similar rough feel.
Friedman introduces the ideas that we are in the age of accelerations - technological, environmental, political and economical. He takes his ideas from the point of view of an individual, brings it to a community level and continues to expand until you're thinking globally. He then wraps things up by going about it in the reverse.