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The Future Is Faster Than You Think

How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

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From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.
In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption.

Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today's legacy industries? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet?

Diamandis, a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer, and Kotler, bestselling author and peak performance expert, probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives—transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance—taking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it.

As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.
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      An enthusiastic look at the technologies of the future--which is just about now. Where are the flying cars we were promised as kids? The answer is, right around the corner. "The cars are here," write Diamandis and Kotler (Bold: How To Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World, 2015, etc.). They may be here, but the problem is how to scale them so they can be introduced into the market economically--and how to scale them, physically, to carry human loads. Uber is slated to unveil a flying car in 2020 and has set a target of 2023 for operational ride-sharing in Los Angeles and Dallas. The game-changer, though, is to make the cost of taking such a ride cheaper than owning a car, one example of many instances of "disruptive innovation" and convergence that isn't just cool, but that also shifts the order of how we do things. Flying cars will disrupt the automobile industry in more than one way, since they'll not just fly, but also use "distributed electric propulsion," controlling multiple electric motors by means of a computer. Elon Musk's Hyperloop train, similarly, is meant to revolutionize long-distance travel by means of a train that will move faster than commercial aircraft. If such innovations seem unlikely, the authors survey the development of artificial intelligence. Only a generation ago, AI couldn't do much more than "read zip codes off letters," but now it can now read nearly a quarter-million books in a second to provide an answer to just about any question a human might have--apart from the meaning of life and other such philosophical matters. Diamandis and Kotler are cheerleaders for disruption, the scale and speed of which are increasing. But they're also realists, noting where there's more sizzle than steak even when they promise really cool things, like overcoming such problems as "mitochondrial dysfunction" to extend human life. Welcome reading for the futurists and technogeeks in the audience.

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