Abundance : the future is better than you think / Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamandis, Peter H.

Contributor:

Kotler, Steven, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Forecasting.

Technological innovations.

Technological forecasting.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

xi, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Free Press hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, 2012.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part 1 Perspective

Chapter 1 Our Grandest Challenge 3

Chapter 2 Building the Pyramid 12

Chapter 3 Seeing the Forest Through the Trees 27

Chapter 4 It's Not as Bad as You Think 38

Part 2 Exponential Technologies

Chapter 5 Ray Kurzweil and the Go-Fast Button 51

Chapter 6 The Singularity Is Nearer 59

Part 3 Building the Base of the Pyramid

Chapter 7 The Tools of Cooperation 77

Chapter 8 Water 85

Chapter 9 Feeding Nine Billion 100

Part 4 The Forces of Abundance

Chapter 10 The DIY Innovator 119

Chapter 11 The Technophilanthropists 132

Chapter 12 The Rising Billion 140

Part 5 Peak of the Pyramid

Chapter 13 Energy 155

Chapter 14 Education 174

Chapter 15 Health Care 189

Chapter 16 Freedom 205

Part 6 Steering Faster

Chapter 17 Driving Innovation and Breakthroughs 217

Chapter 18 Risk and Failure 227

Chapter 19 Which Way Next? 236.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-356) and index.

ISBN:

9781451614213

1451614217

OCLC:

741542469

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