num_pages: 384
description: 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 todays 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 livestransportation retail advertising education health entertainment food and financetaking 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.
language: English
title: The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
publisher: Simon  Schuster