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The Future Is Better Than You Think
Simon and Schuster
March 2012
On Sale: February 21, 2012
400 pages
ISBN: 1451614217
EAN: 9781451614213
Kindle: B005FLOGMM
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Non-Fiction
Providing abundance is humanity’s grandest challenge—this is
a book about how we rise to meet it. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of
every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all
is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up
by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future,
where exponentially growing technologies and three other
powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of
billions. An antidote to pessimism by tech entrepreneur
turned philanthropist, Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning
science writer Steven Kotler. Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in
stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional
wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is
closing—fast. The authors document how four
forces—exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the
Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion—are conspiring
to solve our biggest problems. Abundance establishes hard
targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for
governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of
reason for optimism. Examining human need by category—water, food, energy,
healthcare, education, freedom—Diamandis and Kotler
introduce dozens of innovators making great strides in each
area: Larry Page, Steven Hawking, Dean Kamen, Daniel
Kahneman, Elon Musk, Bill Joy, Stewart Brand, Jeff Skoll,
Ray Kurzweil, Ratan Tata, Craig Venter, among many, many
others.
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