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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
384 pages
A dizzying, urgent roadmap to the exponential technological shifts about to reinvent our daily lives.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like standing at the edge of a dizzying precipice, looking out at a rapidly approaching horizon. The pace is propulsive, mirroring the exponential acceleration of the technologies it describes. It immerses the reader in an energizing, forward-looking mood, blending awe with a sense of urgent anticipation. The prose is gripping and authoritative, translating complex scientific and economic convergences into an accessible, visionary roadmap. As the narrative explores the impending upheaval across every facet of society, the emotional arc shifts from sheer overwhelm to an empowered understanding of our uncharted future. It is a perfect fit for tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and anyone eager to brace themselves for the next decade of radical transformation.
- Mood
- dizzying
- energizing
- forward-looking
- Tone
- urgent
- visionary
- authoritative
- optimistic
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- technological disruption · societal transformation · exponential progress · industry reinvention
- The writing
- Insightful and gripping, delivering complex technological forecasts with urgent, accessible clarity.
- The arc
- Moves from a dizzying realization of impending change to an energized anticipation of a reimagined world.
- Who it's for
- Forward-thinking entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts, and anyone eager to understand the rapid societal shifts on the horizon.
About the book
The Future Is Faster Than You Think, is 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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