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The future is faster than you think : how converging technologies are transforming business, industries, and our lives / Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler.
Lippincott Library HC79.T4 D4895 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diamandis, Peter H., author.
- Kotler, Steven, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Diamandis, Peter H. Exponential mindset series
- Exponential mindset series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Convergence (Economics)--Popular works.
- Convergence (Economics).
- Technological innovations--Economic aspects--Popular works.
- Technological innovations.
- Technological innovations--Forecasting--Popular works.
- Technology--Social aspects--Popular works.
- Technology.
- Technological innovations--Economic aspects.
- Technological innovations--Forecasting.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 365 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
- Summary:
- A blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption. The authors investigate how exponentially accelerating technologies will impact our daily lives and society as a whole. They probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives, including transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance.
- Contents:
- The power of convergence. Convergence
- The jump to lightspeed: exponential technologies Part 1
- The turbo-boost: exponential technologies Part 2
- The acceleration of acceleration
- The rebirth of everything. The future of shopping
- The future of advertising
- The future of entertainment
- The future of education
- The future of healthcare
- The future of longevity
- The future of insurance, finance, and real estate
- The future of food
- The faster future. Threats and solutions
- The five great migrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-347) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781982109660
- 1982109661
- 9781982109677
- 198210967X
- OCLC:
- 1126347047
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