The Future Is Faster Than You Think

audio cd, 256 pages

Published Jan. 28, 2020 by Simon & Schuster Audio.

ISBN:: 978-1-5082-9952-3

(1 review)

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 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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3 stars

"So, the key words for this book are convergence & acceleration. As technology advances accellerate they are also converging, and these combinations are happening faster than ever in the history of the planet, which is leading to previously un-thought-of applications and ideas.

Honestly, I'm struggling to remember a lot of this book, but I attribute this to my own distraction and not the quality of the writing or ideas. I just struggled to stay focused while listening.

I expected this book to be more philosophical but the specificity of ideas and possible applications made this book much more engaging that I expected even with my distraction. I particularly liked the chapter on the industry of food: vertical farms and lab-grown meats, plus the replenishment of forests.

The audio book has additions from the two authors. They comment on the chapter and provide new insights. I really appreciate that they took …

"So, the key words for this book are convergence & acceleration. As technology advances accellerate they are also converging, and these combinations are happening faster than ever in the history of the planet, which is leading to previously un-thought-of applications and ideas.

Honestly, I'm struggling to remember a lot of this book, but I attribute this to my own distraction and not the quality of the writing or ideas. I just struggled to stay focused while listening.

I expected this book to be more philosophical but the specificity of ideas and possible applications made this book much more engaging that I expected even with my distraction. I particularly liked the chapter on the industry of food: vertical farms and lab-grown meats, plus the replenishment of forests.

The audio book has additions from the two authors. They comment on the chapter and provide new insights. I really appreciate that they took the time to do this. "