The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Peter H. Diamandis
The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Peter H. Diamandis
74 Rating(s)
List: $25.99 | Sale: $18.20
Club: $12.99

The Future Is Faster Than You Think
How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

Author: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

Narrator: Peter H. Diamandis

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2020


Synopsis

Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors!

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.

About Peter H. Diamandis

Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is a New York Times bestselling author and the cofounder of Singularity University, Human Longevity, Inc., Celularity, Inc., and founder of Bold Capital Partners. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of XPRIZE. Diamandis has degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School.

About Steven Kotler

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective. His books include Stealing FireBoldThe Rise of SupermanAbundanceA Small Furry PrayerTomorrowlandWest of Jesus, and Last Tango in Cyberspace. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, has been translated into more than forty languages, and has appeared in over a hundred publications, including The New York Times MagazineThe AtlanticWired, Forbes, and Time


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rishabh

A comprehensive summary of technologies that seem promising right now. But hypes up them instead of discussing them objectively. Some descriptions in the book seemed to be more marketing speak (like calling Google's AutoML an AI-that-creates-AIs) than a rigorous evaluation. The book also gives a very......more

Goodreads review by Matt

Reads almost like a parody of what the world would be like if every single pie-in-the-sky proclamation from tech execs came true in the next 5-10 years.......more

If you haven’t read this book yet, I suggest you begin now. The future is so fast that if you haven’t read this book, you’re already pretty far behind. These authors are not going to identify anything that could go wrong with the technologies of the future. If you have read their last two books, you......more

Goodreads review by Leah

Amazing amazing amazing! This book covers all the latest and greatest technologies, what it means for the earth and humanity, the implications, the biggest companies researching and developing them, next steps, struggles, ethics, expansion and growth opportunities. Sure some things you've heard of lik......more

Goodreads review by Petr

I should just dust off my review for Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable, same situation here. I just don't understand for whom the book is for. If you follow technology blogs for a while, you read everything in this book previously somewhere, usually in better form. Reading was an ordeal, it reads like ma......more