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

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From theNew York Timesbestselling authors ofAbundanceandBoldcomes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.
In their bookAbundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, inBold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back withThe 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 Thinkprovides a prescient look at our impending future.

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Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is a New York Timesbestselling 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.

Steven Kotler is aNew York Timesbestselling author, award-winning journalist, and the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective. His books includeStealing Fire,Bold,The Rise of Superman,Abundance,A Small Furry Prayer,Tomorrowland,West of Jesus, andLast 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, includingTheNew York Times Magazine,TheAtlantic,Wired,Forbes, andTime.